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GREATER MIDWAY HISTORY AND COMMUNITY ASSETS The eight community areas of the Greater Midway Planning Area first began as agricultural land during the 1800s. The early 1900s saw industrial development along with railroad and stockyard expansion, which led to a growth in population and residential development throughout the Com-mmunity Areas within the Greater Mid-way Planning Area. Beginning in the 1920s these Community Areas expe-rienced rapid population growth due to the further development of industrial districts and the opening of the Chicago Municipal Airport, later renamed Mid-way Airport. By 1950, the bungalow belt character for which the area is now known was well established. Today, the Greater Midway Industrial Corridor and Midway Airport contribute significantly to the nearly 55,000 jobs in the Plan-ning Area, which provide employment to the most ethnically diverse group of neighborhoods on the south side.
The Archer Heights, Garfield Ridge, West Elsdon and Clearing neighbor-hoods are home to Midway Airport and the Harlem Industrial Corridor. These community areas are served by the Midway Airport station of the CTA’s Orange Line. Valley Forge, Hale, Wentworth, Minuteman, Lawler, Leclaire Court and Vittum Parks offer public open space, and residents are served by the Garfield Ridge, Clearing and Archer Heights libraries. There are four health service providers, including ACCESS Doctors Medical Group, AC-CESS Southwest Family Health Center,
the Archer branch of the Lawndale Christian Health Center, and Friend Family Health Center. Leadership for the area is provided by the Greater Southwest Development Corporation (GSDC) and the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP), among others.
The Gage Park, West Lawn, Chicago Lawn and Ashburn Community Areas feature Marquette Park and two Indus-trial Corridors: the Greater Southwest and a portion of the Brighton Park Industrial Corridors. These community areas are served by the Pulaski-Mid-way, Kedzie, and Western Orange Line CTA stations as well as the Ashburn Metra Station. Marquette, West Lawn, Michael G. Madigan Sr., Seneka and Gage Parks offer public open space, and residents are served by the Gage Park, Chicago Lawn and West Lawn libraries. There are six health service providers, including the IMAN Health Clinic, ACCESS at Holy Cross, Esperanza Health Center, Chicago Family Health Centers, and two branches of the Friend Family Health Center.
The Greater Midway Planning Area also includes relatively smaller portions of the South Lawndale, Brighton Park, New City, and West Englewood Community Areas, but the history and future investments in these areas will be documented in neighboring action plans: South Lawndale in the Pilsen & Little Village Action Plan, Brighton Park in the Greater Stockyards Action Plan, and New City and West Englewood in the South Side Action Plan.
Bungalows in Archer Heights© Eliezer Appleton, Flickr
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ASSET MAPChicago Neighborhoods Now: Greater Midway
Map KeyInterstates
Metra Line & Station
CTA Orange Line & Station
Bike Lanes and Trails
Water
Parks and Open Space
Industrial Corridors
Public Schools
Private Schools
Colleges
Libraries
Hospitals
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The population of the Greater Midway Planning Area has increased by 11% since 1970 (the secong highest growth rate among the 16 Planning Areas), compared to a 20% decrease for Chicago overall. The Greater Midway Planning Area is racially diverse, comprised of 58% Latino, 20% White, and 20% African-American residents. Nearly 45% of the households in the Greater Midway Planning Area earn more than $50,000 per year. The unemployment rate was slightly higher here than in the city overall in 2012 (the latest year for which Planning Area level data is available): 14% vs. 12.9% citywide. Unemployment has dropped significantly since then, and this data will be updated in future iterations of this Action Plan.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Source: 2010 Decennial Census, SF1, Table DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010.
Race and Ethnicity2010
2012
Source: 2012 5 Year American Community Survey, Table B19001 - Household Income in the Past 12 Months (in 2012 inflation-adjusted dollars).
Source: US2010 Project at Brown University, Longitudinal Tract Data Base (LTDB), Full data for 1970-2010.
GREATER MIDWAYCHICAGO
GREATERMIDWAY CHICAGO
233,63319701980199020002010
3,376,152219,319 3,004,435215,625 2,783,572256,421 2,895,521259,112 2,695,249
1970 to 2010Total PopulationRate of Population Change (Percent)
-10%
-20%
0%
10%
20%
1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010
-7%
4%
-7%-11%
-6%
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1970 to 2010
24%27%
19%
13% 12%
4%
29%
23%
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11% 11% 10%
30%30%
25%25%
20%20%
15%15%
10%10%
5%5%
0%0%$25-49k$25-49k $50-74k$50-74k $100-149k$100-149k$75-99k$75-99k<$25k<$25k >$150k>$150k
GREATER MIDWAYCHICAGO
Household Income
GREATER MIDWAY CHICAGO
White Alone
Black or African-American Alone
Asian Alone
Hispanic or Latino, of Any Race
WhiteAlone
Asian AloneOther Alone
Two or More Races
Black or African-American Alone
Hispanic or Latino, of Any Race
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According to a study commissioned by the City in 2013, which analyzed the resident buying power and actual retail sales within each of Chicago’s 16 Plan-ning Areas, the retailers operating in the Greater Midway Planning Area generate lower sales volume in many commer-cial categories than the neighborhood residents would be expected to buy. This suggests that many Greater Midway Planning Area residents leave the area to shop for goods and services in these categories. This is not surprising, since neighboring suburbs account for some of the highest retail sales per household in the Chicago region, an indication that visitors who live outside these suburbs are shopping there, and thus paying sales taxes to these suburbs.
There may be a significant opportunity to recapture some of that spending that leaks out of the Planning Area into the surrounding areas, which will be the sub-ject of further study and discussion.
Vacancy rates in the Greater Midway Planning Area have fallen by 3% for industrial space, risen for office space by 16%, and fallen slightly for retail space between 2005 and 2013. The 7% vacan-cy rate for the 25 million square feet of industrial space in the Greater Midway Planning Area suggests the 6th tightest industrial real estate market among the 16 Planning Areas.
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4Q 2013Total Vacant Rentable Commercial Building Area (Percent) by Use
Source: Institute of Housing Studies at DePaul University Analysis of CoStar data.
Industrial/Flex
Office
Retail
Building Type Period
Total RentableBuilding Area (sf)
Total Vacant RentableBuilding Area (sf)
Total Vacant RentableBuilding Area (%)
ChicagoTotal Vacant RentableBuilding Area (%)
4Q 20134Q 20054Q 20134Q 20054Q 20134Q 2006
25,257,34525,612,019
1,031,1311,184,2869,052,4619,227,733
1,623,7562,444,238
234,08584,476
537,794562,340
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10%10%
23%7%
13%14%
6%6%
7%8%
$42 M
Estimated Local Retail Sales (Demand)Actual Local Retail Sales (Supply)
$240 M$208 M
$120 M$162 M
$157.7 M$98.9 M
$259.8 M$131.5 M
Unmet Demand $58.8 M
Unmet Demand $128.3 M
$163.7 MUnmet Demand $32 M
Unmet Demand $32 M
$125.9 M$361.7 M
$235.8 M
$131.7 M
$410.3 MUnmet Demand $265.8 M$144.5 M
Health & Personal Care Stores
Health & Personal Care Stores
Food &Beverage Stores
Food &Beverage Stores
Large Store General Merchandise
Large Store General Merchandise
Neighborhood Store General MerchandiseNeighborhood Store General Merchandise
Eating & DrinkingEating & Drinking
Auto Sales& ServicesAuto Sales& Services
$116.9 MUnmet Demand $54.1 M$62.8 M
Non-store RetailersNon-store Retailers
00 $300M$300M$200M$200M$100M$100M $400M$400M $500M$500M
Source: 2013 City of Chicago Citywide Retail Market Analysis of Esri Business data.
Home Appliances &Furnishing Stores
Home Appliances &Furnishing Stores
Retail Gap Analysis2013
Local sales exceed local demandLocal demand not satisfied by local sales
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In the Greater Midway Planning Area, 58% of owner-occupants and 44% of renters live in housing that is affordable for those residents (defined as house-holds devoting less than 30% of income to housing expenses), both of which are slightly less than the citywide average. The Greater Midway Planning Area has a lower proportion of vacant homes than its share of the city’s housing stock would suggest, and a higher share of homes that went through a foreclosure than the city average. However, a recent influx of Latino residents has positively impacted these trends. The housing stock in the Greater Midway Planning Area is composed of single-family homes at 63% and multi-family homes at 37%.
HOUSING
39.3% 40.9%
1% 1%
9.5%56.7%
33.9%
50.6%
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59.7% 58.2%
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Renter-OccupiedHouseholds
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2012Housing Costs as a Percentage of Household Income
Source: 2012 5 Year American Survey, Table B25106 - Tenure by Housing Costs as a Percentage of Household Income in the Past 12 Months.
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CHICAGO24%2005 to 2013
Source: Institute of Housing Studies at DePaul University Analysis of Data from Cook County Recorder of Deeds via Property Insight, Record Information Services, Cook County Assessor.
Share of Residential Parcels Impacted by Foreclosure
37%75%
63%25%CHICAGO
2013Housing Composition
SINGLEFAMILY
Source: Institute of Housing Studies at DePaul University Analysis of Data from Cook County Assessor.
Source: Institute of Housing Studies at DePaul University Analysis of Data from HUD/USPS.
Area’s Share of Long-Term Vacant Chicago Addresses4Q 2013
Area’s Share of Chicago Residential Addresses4Q 2013
CALUMET
7%7% 5%5%CALUMET
MULTI-FAMILY
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Nearly three quarters of the residents of the Greater Midway Planning Area live within 1/2 mile of open space, the lowest proximity of the 16 planning areas, and have access to significantly less acreage per resident than the City’s goal, which is 5 acres per 1,000 residents. Acres of open space per 1000 residents per Community Area is as follows: 2.1 acres for Archer Heights, 1.7 acres for Garfield Ridge, .5 acres for Clearing, 16.4 acres for West Elsdon, 1.7 acres for Gage Park, 28.2 acres for West Lawn, 1.4 acres for Chicago Lawn, and .2 acres for Ashburn.
Nine percent of the residents in the Greater Midway Planning Area live within a half-mile from a rail station, which is also the lowest ratio among the 16 Planning Areas. In fact, only 16% of the residents of the Planning Area use public transportation as their primary method of transportation for work – well below the city’s average. Because of this low transit availability, nearly 89% of commuters drive to work, either alone or in car pools.
36%2010
Share of Population within 1/2 Mile of Rail Transit
CHICAGOGREATERMIDWAY
9%9%Source: 2010 Decennial Census, SF1, Table P-1 - Total Population; City of Chicago Data Portal Shapefiles of CTA Stations, Metra Stations, and City of Chicago Street Network; 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefiles of Cook County Census Blocks.
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BICYCLE
0.2%1.3%
DRIVE ALONE
52.5%
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
66.8% 15.9%27.9%
CARPOOL
14.1%10.0%
2.5%6.7%
WALK
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OTHER
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2012
Method of Transportation to Work forEmployed Population Aged 16 Years or Older
Source: 2012 5 Year American Community Survey, Table B08006 - Sex of Workers by Means of Transportation to Work (only age data was used from this table).
CHICAGO 12.4 MI13.6 MI
2011Average Distance to Work (Miles)
Source: Longitudinal Employer - Household Dynamics [LEHD] Origin-Destination Data; 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefiles of Census Blocks.
OPEN SPACE &TRANSPORTATION2010
Acres of Open Space per1,000 Residents
GREATERMIDWAY
CHICAGO
Source: Institute for Housing Studies, DePaul’s analysis of data obtained from the 2010 Decennial Census, SF1, Table P1 – Total Population; City of Chicago Data Portal Shapefiles of CPD Parks, FPDCC Forest Preserves, CPS Campus Parks, City of Chicago-identified wildlife habitat, and City of Chicago Street Network; 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefiles of Cook County Census Blocks. The universe of open space identified is limited to recreation space (either to enter or view) that is freely accessible to the public.
2.72.7 5.0Share of Population within 1/2 Mile of Open Space
74%74% 92%2010
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GREATER MIDWAY EXISTING LAND USE ANDRECENT INVESTMENTSEXISTING LAND USEThe Greater Midway Planning Area’s land is heavily dedicated to housing: 53% of the area is residential compared to a third of the land citywide. The area contains less vacant land than the city average, while a healthy amount of land is dedicated to transportation and industrial land uses due to Midway Air-port and the various industrial corridors located within the Planning Area.
Commercial corridors include Archer Ave, W 63rd St and S Pulaski Rd. The City Colleges of Chicago own significant land for the Richard J. Daley College campus at 7500 S Pulaski Rd.
RECENT INVESTMENTSIn recent years several investments have improved the built environment in the Greater Midway Planning Area.
In the Archer Heights, Garfield Ridge, West Eldon, Clearing, Midway, Vittum Park, LeCLaire Courts and Sleepy Hol-low Community Areas:
• Small Business Improvements Fund (SBIF) at 7030 W 60th St &5424 S Pulaski Rd. Small business assistance program grants allow businesses to improve their facilities.
• Pulaski Promenade at 4200 SPulaski Rd. 153,000 sf of retail space has been developed in a main building with several out lot structures. Total Project Cost: $34million
• Neighborhood Stabilization Program at various locations. NSPfunds help private developers to purchase and rehabilitate vacant, foreclosed homes and make them available to new owners.
In the Gage Park, West Lawn, Chicago Lawn and Ashburn, Marquette Park, West Englewood, Ford City and Scotts-dale Community Areas:
• Small Business Improvement Fund (SBIF) at 6750 S Pulaski Rd. Smallbusiness assistance program grantsallow businesses to improve their facilities
• Senior Suites at Midway Village at 6730-6819 S Keating Ave. The development include 89 apartmentsfor seniors earning up to 60% of the area median income. Total Project Cost: $18.1 million
• Neighborhood Stabilization Program at various locations. NSPfunds help private developers to purchase and rehabilitate vacant, foreclosed homes and make them available to new owners.
• Englewood Trail 59 at 800 W59th St to 2300 W 59th St. Encompassing more than 17 acres,the 1.7 mile right of way along W 59th Street will be acquired in a cash-free exchange for five acres of city-owned land adjacent to the Norfolk Southern’s 63rd St Intermodal Yard.
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Map KeyInterstates
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Mixed Use (Residential + Commercial)
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Source: Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning’s 2010 Land Use Inventory for Northeasetern Illinois, Version 1.0. Published: December 2014. Map information is not appropriate for, and is not to be used as a geodetic, legal, or engineering base. Map information has no legal basis in the definition of boundaries or property lines and is not intended as a substitute for surveyed locations such as can be determined by a registered Public Land Surveyor.
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Greater Midway Land Use Percentage
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GREATER MIDWAY PREVIOUS PLANSThe residents, businesses and institutions of the Greater Midway Planning Area have contributed their wisdom and hard work towards several planning efforts in recent years. This Action Plan will build upon the work that has been already undertaken. At least three plans have been completed since 2000 that generated recom-mendations to improve the Greater Midway Planning Area, one of which was approved by the Chicago Plan Commission. Where appropriate, the recommendations from these prior plans will be incorporated into the Action Plan as Priority Projects. Some examples include:
• Promote stable investment and protect our affordable housing market, from “Chicago Southwest: Making Connections,” which inspiredLawn Terrace Preservation (Priority Project #6).
• Mixed-Use Retail, Medical and Institutional Complex from “LeClaireCourts Transportation and Access Study,” which inspired LeClaire Courts Mixed-use Development (Priority Project #9).
Model Green Bungalow Block from Chicago Southwest: Making Connections
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LECLAIRE COURTS MARKET STUDY2013Participating Organizations
• Chicago Housing Authority
• Chicago Metropolitan Agency forPlanning
Priority Recommendations• Relocation of Traffic Signal from
43th Street to 44th Street and Removal of Cul-de-Sac on 44th Street
• Improve Existing Bus Service andInfrastructure
• Provide Enhanced Transit Services
• Set a High Bar for Redevelopment
• Restore the City Street Grid
• Serve as a Neighborhood CatalystAccommodate Future Transportation Improvements
SOUTH CICERO CORRIDOR STUDYJune 2005Participating Organizations
• Chicago Department of Planning andDevelopment
• Department of Aviation
• Chicago Housing Authority
Priority Recommendations• Develop an attractive and distinctive
image for each of the corridors responding to the different nature and use of the corridors
• Support new commercial, retail, and office development that provide local residents with employment opportunities and needed goods and services, increases the City’s sales and property taxes, and enhances the image and appearance of the Study Area
• Create a housing inventory and living environment that supports the local population, attracts new households, and enhances the overall quality and character of theStudy Area
• Maintain a healthy, growing, and viable airport, which generates significant economic activity for theStudy Area, the City, and the region
Support a balanced transportation system that provides for safe and efficient movement of vehicles, pedestrians, and trains, reinforces surrounding development patterns, and enhances regional transportation facilities.
CHICAGO SOUTHWEST: MAKING CONNECTIONSMay 2005
Participating Organizations• LISC/Chicago
• Greater Southwest DevelopmentCorporation
• Southwest Organizing ProjectPriority Recommendations• Promote stable investment and
protect our affordable housing market
• Establish an active town centerby revitalizing the 63rd Street commercial district
• Strengthen and sustain leadership and community commitment
• Create better recreational and socialopportunities for youth
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