Fuller Park, Chicago
| Fuller Park | |
|---|---|
| Community area | |
| Community Area 37 - Fuller Park | |
 Location within the City of Chicago | |
| Coordinates: 41°48.6′N 87°37.6′W / 41.8100°N 87.6267°WCoordinates: 41°48.6′N 87°37.6′W / 41.8100°N 87.6267°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| City | Chicago |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 0.71 sq mi (1.84 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,876 |
| • Density | 4,000/sq mi (1,600/km2) |
| Demographics 2010[1] | |
| • White | 1.63% |
| • Black | 92.18% |
| • Hispanic | 4.59% |
| • Asian | 0.24% |
| • Other | 1.36% |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP Codes | parts of 60609 |
| Median household income | $15,086[2] |
| Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services | |
Fuller Park, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. It is designated Community Area 37.[3]
Fuller Park is named for the small park within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.[3]
Fuller Park is one of Chicago's smallest community areas.[3] It is a narrow two-mile strip of land, bounded by Pershing Road to the north; Garfield Boulevard to the south; the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Rock Island commuter line of Metra to the east; and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west.[3] Fuller Park lies due south of Comiskey Park, where the Chicago White Sox play.[3] The neighborhood is five miles south of The Loop.[3]
Fuller Park is "one of the worst neighborhoods in the city by almost every metric."[4] Fuller Park is the Chicago neighborhood which experienced the largest decline in population over the fifty years from the city's peak population in 1950 to 2010; its population declined precipitously from 17,000 in 1950 to under 3,000 in 2010, an 83 percent decline.[5] In 2013, Fuller Park has the highest "hardship score" (a combined index of various social and economic statistics) among all Chicago neighborhoods. Fuller Park had the city's highest unemployment rate (40 percent), the second-highest percentage of households below the poverty line (55.5 percent), and the second-lowest per-capita income ($9,016). It was one of only two Chicago community areas with a per-capita income below $10,000.[5][6] In late 2012, Fuller Park was also the only community area in which more than half the population was food-insecure.[5] Fuller Park also rated the second-lowest in the city in trust in neighbors.[4]
According to an analysis of 2012 city data on rates of specific violent crimes (homicide, assault, battery, sexual assault, arson, and burglary), Fuller Park was the most dangerous of Chicago's 77 community areas, with a crime rate of 13,456 per 100,000 people.[7]
Fuller Park has the highest concentration of churches per 100,000 residents of any Chicago community area.[4]
The community of Fuller Park is also home to Eden Place Nature Center, an environmental education and urban ecology center located on three acres in Fuller Park.[8] Eden Place opened in 2003 through the efforts of community activists. The center was built on formerly blighted brownfield land.[8] In 2012, 14,000 people visited Eden Place, about half of them schoolchildren.[8] The center has received many accolades; First Lady Michelle Obama hailed it as a "success story," Illinois governor Pat Quinn honored its founder as an "environmental hero," and the center was featured in a PBS documentary on community environmental activities in large urban areas.[8]
| Historical population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 14,437 | — | |
| 1940 | 15,094 | 4.6% | |
| 1950 | 17,174 | 13.8% | |
| 1960 | 12,181 | −29.1% | |
| 1970 | 7,354 | −39.6% | |
| 1980 | 5,832 | −20.7% | |
| 1990 | 4,364 | −25.2% | |
| 2000 | 3,420 | −21.6% | |
| 2010 | 2,876 | −15.9% | |
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References
- ↑ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Demographics Data". Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ↑ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Census Data". Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Clinton E. Stockwell, Fuller Park, Encyclopedia of Chicago.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Whet Moser, Homicide, Social Efficacy, and Poverty in Chicago, Chicago Magazine (January 3, 2013).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Whet Moser, Chicago's Most Depopulated Neighborhood Is Also Its Most Troubled, Chicago Magazine (May 6, 2013).
- ↑ Whet Moser, The Geography of Economic Hardship in Chicago, Chicago Magazine (June 4, 2012).
- ↑ Whet Moser, What's the Safest Neighborhood in Chicago?, Chicago Magazine, August 27, 2013.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Gerry Smith, Eden Place Nature Center serves as model for what urban communities can do with vacant land, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2011.
- ↑ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Community Areas Historical Data". Chicago Community Areas Historical Data. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
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