Late morning is a great time to explore Bronzeville’s historic residential architecture. The cafe has a selection of open-faced toast plates, coffee drinks crafted using Grandville, MI roaster Littlefoot Coffee, and smoothies. Right next door, another spot to grab breakfast and coffee is Little Sandwich House. In addition to the chicken and waffles varieties named after friends and family, there are plenty of soul and comfort standouts ranging from the catfish to fried chicken liver. Though the pairing of chicken and waffles has Southern origins, its common lore that the unlikely combo emerged as a favorite of Harlem and Bronzeville jazz musicians craving both dinner and breakfast after finishing their 3:00 or 4:00 AM sets. There’s also been a burgeoning appreciation for its collection of historic landmarks, architectural gems, engaging cultural institutions, and prized African-American owned businesses.įor a more robust morning meal, there’s Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles.
In the last three decades, coinciding with these public housing projects being torn down, the neighborhood has seen tangible revitalization, mostly as a result of an influx of many middle and upper-class African-American professionals. Wells Homes, Stateway Gardens, and the Robert Taylor Homes. Under urban renewal between 19, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) projects were constructed such as the Ida B. Though Bronzeville suffered considerable decline during the Great Depression, Chicago’s imposed segregation, redlining, and racial housing covenants were even more devastating to the area in the post-war decades. It wasn’t until the 1890s that the neighborhood began to transform into an extension of the African-American community that had been residing in the Near South Side. The subsequent decades saw Bronzeville’s absorption of an enormous wave of migrants escaping the Jim Crow south. What became known as the “Black Metropolis” had its heyday from roughly the 1910s through the 1940s. Rivaling the Harlem Renaissance, Bronzeville became Chicago’s epicenter of Black working, middle, and upper-class culture and establishments. Black-owned newspapers, restaurants, clubs, theaters, and other businesses of “the city within a city” were found on and around State Street between 30th and 35th (“The Stroll”) and 43rd Street and 47th Street between State Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Further south in the Grand Boulevard section of Bronzeville, many of Chicago’s elite, including stock yard barons the Swifts’ and vaudeville stars the Marx brothers established stately homes along the lavish boulevards. During the Civil War, the North established Camp Douglas on the premises as a POW camp detaining Confederate soldiers. By the 1880s the area had developed into a well-to-do Jewish enclave. Douglas, the community area that encompasses Bronzeville’s northern half, began as the property and home of Abraham Lincoln’s debating foe and slavery defender, Stephen A.
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