Roseland, Chicago

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Roseland (Chicago, Illinois)

Community Area 49 - Roseland Location within the city of Chicago
Latitude Longitude	41°42.6′N, 87°37.2′W
Neighborhoods	Fernwood Princeton Park Roseland
ZIP Code	parts of 60619, 60620, 60628
Area	12.58 km² (4.85 mi²)
Population (2000) Density	52,723 (down 6.67% from 1990) 4,197.2 /km²
Demographics	White Black Hispanic Asian Other	0.52% 97.8% 0.69% 0.06% 0.92%
Median income	$42,854
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

Roseland, located on the far south side of the city, is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood, Princeton Park and Roseland. Roseland was settled in the 1840s by Dutch immigrants who called the area "de Hooge Prairie", the high prairie because it was built on higher, drier ground than another Dutch settlement several miles further south in the Little Calumet River swamps which they called "de Laage Prairie", the low prairie. That community became South Holland, Illinois and it received an influx of Roseland residents during the white flight of the mid-20th century. Roseland supplied some workers to the Pullman car factory in neighboring Pullman, Chicago.

In the mid 1990's, Roseland gained notoriety as the stomping ground of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, the child villain who was executed by his gang at eleven.

The much lauded mural "I Welcome Myself to a New Place: Roseland Pullman Mural," by Olivia Gude, Jon Pounds, and Marcus Jefferson, 1988, was designed to unite the predominantly African American community of Roseland with its nearest neighbor, the predominantly white Pullman community.

[edit] See also

• Roseland Christian School

[edit] External links

• Official City of Chicago Roseland Community Map
• Roseland photos, videos and message board

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