Posted Apr 17, 2010, 4:55 AM
|
 |
reticulating splines
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Houston -> Chicago
Posts: 629
|
|
That empty field was probably cleared out recently. That's the edge of old Fourth Ward, which has been gentrified and mostly rebuilt and that's ongoing.
It was once known as "Freedman's Town" which was a community of freed slaves in the 1800s. Then they built the Pierce Elevated right through it and killed the neighborhood, and it degenerated into a slum.
|