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<br /> Industrialization Growth Public Housing Construction Begins Urban Growth Urban Renewal Demolition
<br /> In the early part of the loth century at a time when In 1943.15o units of°war housing"were approved for The LaSalle Park Neighborhood remained a In 1959,residents delivered a petition to the City asking
<br /> the Grand Kankakee Marsh was still being drained.the construction in the neighborhood.These public housing major settlement area for African Americans.but for street,sidewalk,and sewer improvements.The initial
<br /> area was mainly unsettled.In the few homes nearby. units were constructed for African American families neighborhood infrastructure lagged behind with narrow, response was the first urban renewal housing plan
<br /> there were mostly Polish American or other eastern in an area bounded by Kenmore Street,Washington unpaved streets without curbs and sidewalks,and impacting 240 acres and hundreds of homes. in 1964
<br /> Europeans working in one of the many area factories. Street.Chicago Street,and Jefferson Blvd. Additional some areas were lacking a proper sewer system. a plan was finalized to deliver infrastructure.a 40 acre
<br /> The emergence of Beck's Lake had generated the first units were built in 1944 as a series of 20 two family park and new community center.One hundred and
<br /> industry of the neighborhood-ice harvesting. cinder block dwellings north of W.Washington St. Starting in the 1g3o's,the former Beck's Lake Area thirty homes would be demolished including the cinder
<br /> located in an area now occupied by LaSalle Park became a dumping ground for industrial waste and block"barracks".a symbol of substandard housing
<br /> The coming decades saw significant changes to the property.The quickly built structures came to be known household refuse further filling in the marshy muddy conditions.
<br /> area.As more factories opened nearby,migration to the as"the barracks". area surrounding Beck's Lake.Eventually,the city
<br /> neighborhood by African Americans from the US South acquired the property and closed the dump site though By the mid ig60's.LaSalle Park was opened within the
<br /> increased and in ig11.South Bend annexed LaSalle informal dumping continued in the ig5o's. former dump/Beck's Lake Area with new athletic fields
<br /> Park Neighborhood area into the city.In 1927,the city and a wooded picnic area.The LaSalle Park Recreation
<br /> planned a sewer to accommodate industrial growth and Center was opened in 1g67.By the end of the decade,
<br /> Beck's Lake was drained.Work was complete despite LaSalle Park was complete with two new features:a
<br /> poor conditions in the former lakebed. sledding hill and Beck's Lake-now restored to 8 acres.
<br /> By 1g69.LaSalle Park Homes were under construction
<br /> on the southwest corner of Washington and Falcon
<br /> Streets,When completed 5 years later it would include
<br /> 150 rental units.
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