With Comiskey Park in the nearby horizon, the Wentworth Avenue White Sox practice in the concrete lot adjacent to Robert Abbott Elementary School at 68th and South Wentworth. Made up of eight-to-twelve year olds who hail from the Wentworth Gardens housing community, the Sox are one of 16 Inner City Little League teams. Administered by the city’s Park District as of 2000, the league’s teams are comprised of CHA residents and compete at the South Side’s Washington Park facilities; squads share the names of major League Baseball teams, and the League itself is partially sponsored by the Chicago Cubs’ Cubs Care foundation and by the Chicago White Sox. ©Wes Pope / CITY 2000
With Comiskey Park in the nearby horizon, the Wentworth Avenue White Sox practice in the concrete lot adjacent to Robert Abbott Elementary School at 68th and South Wentworth. Made up of eight-to-twelve year olds who hail from the Wentworth Gardens housing community, the Sox are one of 16 Inner City Little League teams. Administered by the city’s Park District as of 2000, the league’s teams are comprised of CHA residents and compete at the South Side’s Washington Park facilities; squads share the names of major League Baseball teams, and the League itself is partially sponsored by the Chicago Cubs’ Cubs Care foundation and by the Chicago White Sox. ©Wes Pope / CITY 2000
With Comiskey Park in the nearby horizon, the Wentworth Avenue White Sox practice in the concrete lot adjacent to Robert Abbott Elementary School at 68th and South Wentworth. Made up of eight-to-twelve year olds who hail from the Wentworth Gardens housing community, the Sox are one of 16 Inner City Little League teams. Administered by the city’s Park District as of 2000, the league’s teams are comprised of CHA residents and compete at the South Side’s Washington Park facilities; squads share the names of major League Baseball teams, and the League itself is partially sponsored by the Chicago Cubs’ Cubs Care foundation and by the Chicago White Sox. ©Wes Pope / CITY 2000
A photograph of Kansas City jazzman Count Basie graces the wall at Gerri’s Palm Tavern on East 47th Street. During the mid-20th Century, the Tavern was one of the primary haunts for performers working at the original Regal Theater at 47th Street and what was then South Park Boulevard. Both venues helped form the bustling commercial and cultural nucleus of the Black Belt (Chicago’s all-black South Side, stretching—to varying degrees—between 31st Street and Hyde Park Boulevard). When the Regal closed, its proprietors gave the photograph collection to Tavern owner Gerri Oliver in recognition of the services her after-hours establishment provided. Gerri’s Palm Tavern closed in 2001. ©Wes Pope / CITY 2000
Kids watch a Chicago Park District-sponsored basketball tournament in Wentworth Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority project, on a hot day. ©Wes Pope / CITY 2000
