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"I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the Motherland. I knew I belonged there." Millions of Chicagoans agree with this sentiment by the city's adopted daughter Oprah Winfrey, and have made it their home since its incorporation in 1837.
Chicago is the largest city in the Midwest and has 2.7 million residents, of which more than 40,000 of whom call Lawndale home. The Lawndale community, also called North Lawndale, is one of the 77 officially defined areas within Chicago, and was once home to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who once lived on South Hamlin Avenue. Lawndale was named by the Millard and Decker real estate organization that helped divide the city of Chicago just before the infamous Chicago fire of 1871. Afterwards, the company that would become International Harvester built an enormous plant in nearby South Lawndale and many of its workers settled in the area. One of the major thoroughfares in the area is Ogden Avenue, a street where you can enjoy a mixture of chain stores and upscale boutiques, fancy restaurants and famous pizzerias and notable homes on the National Historic Register.
By the early 1920s, Lawndale became known as an eclectic mixing pot of an area, with a mixture of luxury homes and both display and performing arts centers