Calumet Heights, Chicago

Calumet Heights
Community area
Community Area 48 - Calumet Heights

Location within the city of Chicago
Coordinates: 41°43′42″N 87°34′47″W / 41.72833°N 87.57972°W / 41.72833; -87.57972Coordinates: 41°43′42″N 87°34′47″W / 41.72833°N 87.57972°W / 41.72833; -87.57972
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Neighborhoods	list Calumet Heights Pill Hill
Area
• Total	1.77 sq mi (4.58 km²)
Population (2010)
• Total	13,812
• Density	7,800/sq mi (3,000/km²)
Demographics 2010^[1]
• White	0.91%
• Black	93.38%
• Hispanic	4.12%
• Asian	0.19%
• Other	1.4%
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP Codes	parts of 60617, 60619
Median household income	$55,669^[2]
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

Calumet Heights, located on the South Side of the city, is one of the 77 well defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Calumet Heights is bounded by 87th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along 95th Street). It includes the neighborhoods of Calumet Heights and Pill Hill. Beginning at about 91st Street and Constance Avenue is the geographical feature for which it was named, a stony hill that was once an island when glacial Lake Chicago covered the area thousands of years ago. Early pioneers gave this hill the name Stony Island because at a distance it looked like an island in set a trackless prairie sea. (See also the nearby Blue Island).

Calumet Heights was swampy and relatively unoccupied throughout the nineteenth century. A railroad was built in 1881 along the western border of Calumet Heights leading to the development of the neighborhood.^[3]

References

↑ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Demographics Data". Archived from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
↑ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Census Data". Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
↑ Encyclopaedia Chicago: Calumet Heights

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