Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • Page 89

I fart 5-Page 6 (Eljtragrr afig SrilMtte Thurday, Juno 4, 1959 iVUST PROJECT Face Lifting Gives New Look to Old Neighborhood CHANGES FACE shop our evergreen store at 95th and western, thursdey and friday 9:30 to 9:30, Saturday ,9:30 to 5:45 OF SOUTH SIDE I FAI millions Spent to Clear, Rebuild 732 Acres you can shampoo BY SHEILA WOLFE any 9x12 rug with professional results less than 50c! Old tipe south siders would blink with disbelief if Gel the new cleaner Mr. Clean at Woolley's Two She 15 ex. 37 I pint Lie 12 ox. they could take another look at an area that, just 10 years ago, was a vast, rotted, and seemingly irreparable slum. neighborhood.

Former slum sector was acquired by the Chicago Land Clearance commission and sold at a write-down to private developers. TRIBUNE Photo View looking north from 31st street and Cottage Grove avenue shows first completed apartment building in Prairie Shores development facing Michael Reese hospital. Rebuilding surge is transforming 732 acre blighted area into a new A rebuilding surge that rivals, indeed surpasses, any in the city or the nation is to buy the Hilton hotel That for 4 rooms, and $176 for The new Instant Mend Jiffy Sew transforming 732 acres south was when the campus covered 5V2 rooms. of 26th street beyond recog seven acres, and had virtually Immediately north of Lake er resale prices to private developers. The commission started assembling 100 acres between 31st and 35th streets, South nition.

no living quarters. Its grounds west of Mich Meadows is the modern, expanding Michael Reese hos in by a community with three times the rate of crimes, fires, and tuberculosis, and twice the number of juvenile delinquents and car accidents that occurred in the rest of the city. Now it has 23 hospital and research buildings, faces "None on This Scale Elevator apartment build igan avenue between 30th and 35th streets today boast, pital and the related Prairie Shores apartment develop Park way to the Illinois Cen ings stand where teeming, in addition to new education ment. Mesh anl9s unsanitary, and unsafe stone tral railroad, in 1948. Its first front walk-Ups Once Stood.

pctnmor Vnrlr T.ifP Tn- al and research units, four Hospital Considered Selling Modern hospital buildings oc- a 19 story apartment structure with 340 units, the first Since 1947, Michael Reese apartments, two dormitories, and four fraternity houses Three or four more apart cudv former saee ne. frame has invested 13 million dol of five that will comprise lars in new medical proper store sites. A college campus first 12 story apartment has emerged where crime building in Lake Meadows in ments are contemplated. Prairie Shores. The Land Clearance cpm- ties.

It recently announced a and its accompanying de- the spring of 1953 Crime Rate Cut mission sow sd acres to Mi tenoration had threatened its 25 Store Shop Center We wouldn't be where we are today if we were not able very existence. Now thfire arH nine 12 and SHETLAND Wnisftmg Other cities have large stnrv bnilrlinus. to offer staff and student reaeveiopmeni projecis, dui a sh0nDine center with 25 housing," Spaeth said. We rug shampoo concentrate are going to have a beautiful there are none quite on this stores a new eIementary scale," said Phil A. Doyle, ex- schooi and a seven acra Dark environment.

10 year plan to spend at least 12 million more. "I think our experience hs demonstrated that if everybody gets together, conservation can work and people don't have to leave the city, said Dr. Morris Kree-ger, hospital director. Michael Reese, like the Illinois Institute of Technology nearby, seriously considered selling its plant and moving to another location before de ecutive airector 01 ine ni-in T.to Monrtnw a rnmtnpr. "The crime rate, for one chael Reese, at a public investment of 5V2 million dollars.

I. I. T. was able to acquire all but the last 13 acres of its 110 acre campus without the commission's help. 34 New Buildings Thirty-four of 50 I.

I. T. buildings that are planned have been erected at a cost of 26 million dollars since the end of World War II. Land Clearance commis- cial building on 3ist street, a thing, is way down a 50 per cent reduction from' what it 1 A 1 1 vvi complete. ajr conditioned apartment was.

This whole area is becoming exceedingly de UUViV esamidieu ueiwccu hnii.c will rnnnrl mit thp 30 rre ff ill: TK I w. 00 ana ou nmuuu uuuaib mil inn dollar nrnipr-t sirable." Bv the end of the year, Yon get the glitter and excitement of Chicago after dark when you read Herb Lyon's "Tower Ticker," daily except Saturday in the Chicago Tribune. puDiic lunas, ana niany ximes -adaHy integrated, Lake over that amount in private Mpadnws tenants nav an nothing that stood on the ciding that rebuilding not Ravmond Spaeth, vice original I. I. T.

campus will president of the institute, re relocating was the answer. money, will have'been spent average of $78 a month for by the time the last new brick efficiency apartments, $141 remain. called the school once tried The hospital was hemmed large size, makej 8 gallant, cleans eight $79 9x12' rugi itandard size, mates 4 gallon), cleans four $169 9x12' rugs Introductory size, mates 2 gallons, rcnii cleans two 9x12' rugs 9 Pampers your, most precious rugs, returns the bright original color! Effortless millions of tiny, activated bubbles penetrate deep into the fibers of your rug, lift out embedded dirt and float it away! 70am vanishes no rinsing or wipe-up necessary! Clean, pleasant odor. Excellent results either by hand or with electric rug-cleaning floor, polisher. THE FAIR sewing machines and vacuum cleaners, lower level is sta in piaue utawecu uaivc Michigan and the Rock Island 9 5 HUGE WAREHOUSE FLOORS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! railroad tracks from zbtn street to the Ida B.

Wells public housing project south of 35th street. $30,000,000 Spent Thirty million dollars In I II 1 1 i i iv. 4 DAY federal, city, and state funds have been spent by the Land Clearance commission so far to acquire and clear the slum properties which were at SPECIAL their hey-day at the turn of the century. The federal gov ernment contributes the Chicago's Wggest real estate market place that's what yon reach when you advertise real estate in a Tribune want ad. To sell a home, factory, farm, resort or other property, offer it in a Tribune want ad.

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