The large expanse of Chicago's South Side today called Bronzeville, roughly between the South Loop and Kenwood some ways west of the lake, evolved into one Chicago's most dynamic and elegant communities in the late 1800s. By the mid-30s, it had become the major center for Chicago's African-American culture, and has continued as a show place of that culture up to the present. In the last decades of the 20th Century, the community fell victim to the patterns of urban struggles that afflicted many South Side neighborhoods at that time, but today it enjoys new attention and proudly invites Chicago to celebrate its roots.
