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Buildings and architecture

Because of its long history, the built environment of Blue Island exhibits a broad range of architectural styles and periods. Although largely built in the vernacular tradition, the works of notable architects, including George Maher, Oscar Wenderoth, Robert E. Seyfarth, Perkins and Will and Bertrand Goldberg[27] are featured throughout the community. The oldest section of Blue Island's city hall, built in 1891, was designed by Edmund R. Krause, who was the architect of the Majestic Building (along with its recently restored Bank of America Theatre) in Chicago's Loop. The first buildings of Northwest Gas, Light and Coke Company in Blue Island were designed by Holabird and Roche[28] in 1902 (demolished). The city also has 22 houses known to have been built with mail-order kits sold by Sears Modern Homes. There is one building in Blue Island listed on the National Register of Historic Places,[29] twenty-seven are included as part of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency's Historic Architectural and Archaeology Resources Geographic Information System,[30] and forty-one individual buildings and one district have been designated as local landmarks by the Blue Island Historic Preservation Commission.

Claims to fame

Henry Seyfarth was born and raised in Blue Island and began his legal career in an office above the First National Bank of Blue Island (now Great Lakes Bank of Choice), a business with family associations that was founded in 1896 as Zacharias, Bourke & Co. In 1945, Seyfarth left the now defunct Chicago Law firm of Pope Ballard Shepard & Fowle with Lee Shaw and Owen Fairweather to found what is now known as Seyfarth Shaw, recognized today as one of the world's largest and most respected law firms, which specializes in business and employee relations. Lawyers from the firm helped draft the Taft-Hartley Act[48] in 1947. Seyfarth Shaw now has 750 attorneys operating from ten offices around the world. * Curtis Granderson, professional baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, was born in Blue Island.

Demographics

As of the 2000 census,[45] there were 23,463 people, 8,247 households, and 5,467 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,822.4 people per square mile (2,247.9/km²). There were 8,750 housing units at an average density of 2,171.3/sq mi (838.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 53.68% White, 24.10% African American, 0.60% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 17.68% from other races, and 3.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 37.93% of the population, including 34.0% of Mexican descent. The top four non-Hispanic, non-African American ancestries reported in Blue Island as of the 2000 census were German (11.7%), Irish (10.4%), Polish (6.7%) and Italian (6.6%).[46] There were 8,247 households out of which 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.3% were married couples living together, 19.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families. 28.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.54. In the city the population was spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males. The median income for a household in the city was $36,520, and the median income for a family was $42,277. Males had a median income of $31,599 versus $26,425 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,156. About 12.3% of families and 13.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.4% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.

Description

Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois. The population was 23,463 at the 2000 census.

Education

As the largest settlement in the southern part of Cook County in the middle of the nineteenth century, Blue Island was an important trading and cultural center. The village offered educational opportunity to its residents as early as 1845 in the form of a private school for girls that was operated by local citizens, and public education was introduced in 1846 with the construction of a one-room schoolhouse that served the community exclusively for that purpose until the first Whittier School was built in 1854. The one-room schoolhouse was repurposed several times in subsequent years and still stands, much remodeled, as a comfortable house on Greenwood Ave. The public school district as a legal entity (now Blue Island School District 130) was established in 1887, and the current high school district (Community High School District 218) was created in 1927, replacing earlier versions from 1897 and 1903. Blue Island Community High School (Now Dwight D. Eisenhower High School) was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (now North Central Association - Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement) in 1899. As president of Columbia University, Eisenhower was the keynote speaker at the dedication of the new facility on Sacramento Ave. for Blue Island Community High School in 1951, and the building was renamed in his honor in 1962. [24] Blue Island hosted a number of educational conferences during the 1850’s, and because of this (and thru the influence of Benjamin Sanders, whose tenure with the Cook County Board was during that time) Chicago State University was founded in Blue Island in 1867 as the Cook County Normal (or Teacher's) School in the classrooms of the old Whittier School building on Vermont Street. This arrangement lasted until 1870, when the new campus for the college was completed in what is now the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago on 10 acres (40,000 m2) of land that was donated by L. W. Beck for the purpose in 1868. [25]

Geography

Blue Island is located at 41°39′30″N 87°40′46″W / 41.65833°N 87.67944°W / 41.65833; -87.67944 (41.658412, -87.679424).[44] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.1 square miles (10.7 km²), of which, 4.0 square miles (10.4 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (2.18%) is water.

Government

Nearly all of Blue Island is in Illinois' 1st congressional district; the portion east of the Dan Ryan Expressway is in the 2nd district.

Health care

Blue Island is home to MetroSouth Medical Center. Founded in 1905 as Saint Francis Hospital in the former mansion of Ernst Uhlich when this section of Gregory Street was lined with churches and the homes of some of Blue Island's more prosperous citizens, the hospital has long been nationally recognized as one of the nation's premier cardiovascular primary care centers. The founders of the hospital, the Sisters of St. Mary (currently the Franciscan Sisters of Mary), relinquished ownership of the facility to MetroSouth Medical Center on July 30, 2008.

Music

Because of the wide popularity of performers such as W. C. Handy, the Blues became a popular musical genre during the roaring twenties. It is not surprising, then, that when Wendell Hall, Harry Geise and Emory O'Hara were looking for a title for their 1923 composition, they hit upon the name Blue Island Blues. The sheet music for it was published that year by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. Described by the New York Times art critic John S. Wilson as a "striking and colorful original composition" [24], it is a plaintive love song about a man who is missing his girl and "...has a ticket to Chicago..." that will be used to help him "... lose - those Yesterday's - Blue Island Blues". It was performed by Tiny Parham in 1929, and an instrumental version is currently available on the CD by George Shearing and Brian Torff entitled Lullaby of Birdland: Blues Alley Jazz/On a Clear Day which was released by Concord Records in 2000. The rock band Enuff Z'Nuff, also has members who lived there. One of their songs on the album Strength is named "Blue Island", and a later album is titled Welcome to Blue Island. The group has appeared on MTV, Howard Stern and David Letterman. Their music has been released on Atco Records and Arista Records. Saxophonist Eugene Rousseau was born in Blue Island.

Origin of the name

Blue Island is so named because it is situated on the south end of a glacial moraine that was once an island when Lake Chicago covered the surrounding area thousands of years ago at the end of the last ice age. Early pioneers gave the ridge the name because at a distance it looked like an island set in a trackless prairie sea. The blue color was attributed to atmospheric scattering or to blue flowers growing on the ridge. From the Chicago Democrat, February, 1834: "Nearly south of this town and twelve miles [19 km] distant is Blue Island. This name is particularly appropriate. It is a table of land about six miles [10 km] long and an average of two miles [3 km] wide, of an oval form and rising some forty feet out of an immense plain which surrounds it on every side. The sides and slopes of this table, as well as the table itself, are covered with a handsome growth of timber, forming a belt surrounding about four or five thousand acres of beautiful table land. In summer, the plain is covered with luxurious herbage. It is uninhabited, and when we visited it, from its stillness, loneliness, and quiet, we pronounced it a vast vegetable solitude. The ridge, when viewed from a distance, appears standing in an azure mist of vapor, hence the appellation 'Blue Island'." The city is one of seven incorporated areas in Illinois to have been designated by the White House as a "Preserve America" [1] community.

Parks and recreation

Blue Islanders have enjoyed a system of parks since 1912 when the park district (which was formed in 1909) acquired the property of the late Benjamin Sanders, who was Blue Island's first village president when the town incorporated in 1872 and served as the chairman of the building committee of the Cook County Board after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The 9-acre (36,000 m2) property, which is bounded by Gregory Street, High Street, Irving Avenue and York Street, came with Sanders' home, which was remodeled into a field house and provided living quarters for the park's superintendent. Central Park [16] eventually offered tennis courts, playground equipment, and the community's first swimming pool. It was vacated by the park district in 1965 when St. Francis Hospital acquired the property for $325,000.[17] (about $2.15 million in 2008) to build its east campus there. The city operates the Meadows Golf Club, a 6,549-yard (5,988 m), 18-hole golf course that was designed by J. Porter Gibson ASGCA and opened in 1994. It has a course rating of 71.3 and a slope rating of 121.[20]

Places of worship

Baptist * California Gardens Christian of Love Baptist Church – 13911 S. Kedzie Ave. Church of Christ * Blue Island Church of Christ – 2304 W. 120th St. Church of God of Prophecy * Glorious Life Worship Center – 12654 S. Maple Conservative Congregational Christian Conference * Evangelical Community Church – 2237 W. 120th Pl. Disciples of Christ * Family of Hope Christian Church - 2324 W. Orchard St. Episcopal * St. Joseph’s and St. Aiden’s Episcopal Church – Oak St. at Greenwood Ave. Evangelical Covenant * Mission Covenant Church of Blue Island – 2501 W. Collins St. Lutheran * First Evangelical Lutheran Church – 2515 W. Grove St. * Salem Lutheran Church – 12951 S. Maple Ave. * St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church – 13153 S. Greenwood Ave. * St. Philip Lutheran Church – 2500 W. 121st St. Methodist * Grace United Methodist Church – 12739 S. Maple Ave. Mormon * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – 2445 W. Birdsall Nazarene * Church of the Nazarene – 12815 S. Gregory St. Pentecostal * Bethel Pentecostal Church - 2726 W. Broadway * Life Changing Ministry - 2817 139th St. Roman Catholic * St. Benedict Church – 2339 W. York St. * St. Donatus Church – 1944 W. High St. * St. Isidore Church – 1811 W. Burr Oak Ave. [15] Roman Catholic – Lay Ecclesial Movement * Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima – 13811 S. Western Ave. Salvation Army * Salvation Army Community Center - 2900 W. Burr Oak Ave. (127th St.) Under construction. United Church of Christ * Christ Memorial United Church of Christ – 2440 W. York St.

References

* Jebsen, Harry A. (1971). Blue Island, Illinois: The History of a Working Class Suburb. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, International.  * Jellema, Kenneth A. (1989). The City on the Hill - An Historical Tour. Blue Island: The Blue Island Historical Society.  * The Lions Club of Blue Island (1962). The Blue Island Story - an Historical Review of the First One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Years of our City on the Hill, Blue Island, Illinois. Blue Island: The Blue Island Publishing Corporation.  * Schapper, Ferdinand (1917). Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island before the Civil war by Ferdinand Schapper of Blue Island, Illinois, and presented by him to the Chicago Historical Society, 1917, Volume 1. Blue Island: Manuscript.  * Schapper, Ferdinand (1917). The Early settlers and their Families, Volume 2. Blue Island: Manuscript.  * Schapper, Ferdinand (1917). Views of Blue Island, Index of early Settlers, their Families, etc., Volume 3. Blue Island: Manuscript.  * Volp, John Henry (1938). The First Hundred Years - 1835-1935, an Historical Review of Blue Island, Illinois. Blue Island: Blue Island Publishing. 

Religious life

Although religious gatherings have taken place in Blue Island almost since it was settled in 1836, the first denominational services took place in 1850 with the founding of the Central Methodist Church (predecessor to today's Grace United Methodist Church). Blue Island continues to respect the tradition of its early settlers by maintaining many of the congregations that were established here during these early years, and also by hosting new places of worship that serve the needs of new residents of this culturally diverse community. The following institutions, many of them well over a hundred years old, serve the Blue Island area today:

Schools

Elementary and middle schools - public * Everett F. Kerr Middle School – 12915 S. Maple Ave. * Greenwood School - 12418 Highland Ave * Lincoln Elementary School – 2140 W. Broadway St. * Paul Revere Intermediate School – 12331 S. Gregory St. * Paul Revere Primary School – 2300 W. 123rd Pl. * Veteran’s Memorial Middle School – 12320 S. Greenwood * Whittier Elementary School – 13043 S. Maple Elementary and middle schools - private * St. Benedict School – 2324 W. New St. Top 25 Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago.[citation needed] High school - public * Dwight D. Eisenhower High School – 12700 S. Sacramento Ave. High school - private * Marist High School - 4200 W. 115th St. Higher education - public * Moraine Valley Community College – 12940 S. Western Ave. Special education - public * Able Program, Garfield School – 13801 S. Chatham St. * Academy for Learning – 13813 S. Western Ave. Special education - private * Blue Cap School – 2155 W. Broadway St. Technical and vocational - private * Environmental Technical Institute – 13110 S. Division St.

Television and Hollywood

Because of its picturesque nature, Blue Island has been used for location shots in several movies and television series. For example, scenes from the 2006 Paramount Pictures film Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, were filmed in Blue Island. The movie was based on the book of the same name by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the six men who became famous for raising the American flag there, and the sensation it caused after the photograph that was taken of it by Joe Rosenthal was published by the Associated Press. Scenes from the 1987 film Light of Day, starring Michael J. Fox, were also filmed there, including the scenes at the arcade "The Video Zone" (which for many years after filming was completed served as a Big Boy submarine sandwich shop - it was demolished in June 2009), as were scenes from the 2008 Universal Studios film The Express. The Express is the story of Ernie Davis, who was the first black football player to win the Heisman Trophy. Scenes from the 2008 film The Lucky Ones were also filmed in Blue Island. The movie, which stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Pena, is the story of three veterans of the Iraq war as they try to pick up the threads of their lives after they return home. It was directed by Neil Burger and produced by Liongate Films.

The Blue Island Area Sports Hall of Fame

As part of its focus, the park district serves the needs of the community by sponsoring little league, football and other sports activities. It is also host to the Blue Island Area Sports Hall of Fame,[21] which was sponsored by the Blue Island Sun Standard and founded by its sports editor, Don Rizzs. As a community that is heavily involved in sports on many levels, the Hall of Fame is a repository of photos and biographies of many individuals who have distinguished themselves on the playing field, both on the local level and in the international spotlight.

The Joshua P. Young House

Built by Carlton Wadhams, owner of the American House Hotel, this house was later owned in by Joshua Palmer Young, who, as president of the Blue Island Land and Building Co., was important in the development of the Chicago communities of Beverly Hills; Morgan Park[31]; Washington Heights; and Englewood; Harvey, IL; Homewood, IL and South Holland, IL. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is included in the State of Illinois' Historic Architectural and Archaeology Resources Geographic Information System.

The USS Blue Island Victory

On December 28, 1945, 91 days after her keel was laid, the U.S.S. Blue Island Victory was launched from the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. Dubbed "the Ugly Duckling of the merchant marine" by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Victory ships were armed cargo ships that were built during World War II to transport troops and supplies wherever in the world their services were required. Of the 550 or so built[32], 218 were named after American cities. The U.S.S. Blue Island Victory was a type VC 2-S-AP2, which was 455 feet (139 m) long, 62 feet (19 m) wide, and had a 25-foot (7.6 m) draft. It was equipped with a 5-inch (130 mm) gun on the stern for enemy submarines, a three inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun, and a 20 mm cannon. The U.S.S. Blue Island Victory served variously as a troop ship[33] and as a cattle transport ship,[34] and saw service in the Korean War. It was scrapped in 1972. The picture shown above is the U.S.S. Lane Victory, which is a twin to the U.S.S. Blue Island Victory that today serves as a museum in Los Angeles, California. It is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The oldest building

The oldest building in Blue Island was built in 1836 as the courthouse and post office for Lake County, Indiana - a function it served until 1844 when it was dis-assembled and sent by raft up the Little Calumet River and re-assembled in Blue Island as the American House Hotel. Although its Greek Revival roots are clearly discernible, the building is much remodeled and serves today as a private residence.

The public library

A lending library has been in existence in some form or another in Blue Island since about 1845, when Thomas McClintock began to make his private library of about 100 volumes available to the public for a nominal fee. The founding of the library as a publicly supported institution dates to 1854, when the library's collection, which at this time numbered around 800 volumes, was housed in the new Whittier School building on Vermont St. The library expanded again in 1890 when the Current Topics Club, predecessor to the Blue Island Woman's Club, opened a small reading room above Edward Seyfarth's hardware store on Western Avenue with a collection of about 1500 books and various periodicals which were acquired with funds that were donated by the community thru public subscription. Except for what was in the hands of patrons, this library's collection was destroyed by the Great Blue Island Fire of 1896.

Transportation

The city is a hub for Metra trains, with six stations, four of them along the Rock Island District Line: 119th Street, 123rd Street, Prairie Street, and Vermont Street. The Rock Island District Line splits at Gresham, north-east of Blue Island, and the branch (known alternately as the 'Beverly', 'Blue Island', or 'Suburban' branch) serves the communities of Beverly Hills, Morgan Park, and the stations in Blue Island between 119th Street and Vermont Street, where the tracks re-join the main line. The Vermont Street station, which is one of the oldest in the Metra network (having been built in 1868[2]) is across the street from the fifth station, which serves as the terminus of a Metra Electric (formerly the Illinois Central) [3] spur line. The sixth station, also on the electric line, is a half mile north on Burr Oak Ave. (127th St.) and Lincoln Ave. Blue Island is also served by Pace Suburban Bus [4]

Uptown

Norman Rexford came to Chicago from Charlotte, Vermont in 1835 and became the first permanent settler of Blue Island when he established the Blue Island House inn there in 1836 [5]. (The site where the building stood can best be described using current landmarks as being at the confluence of Western Avenue and Gregory Street just north of the Western Avenue bridge.) Before Rexford built the Blue Island House, he had constructed a four room log cabin in the wilderness at the north end of the blue island ridge that he intended as a tavern for wayfarers, but after a year realized that the place was not likely to be profitable for him and began to look for another site where he might have more success. Although farther from the settlement at Chicago (which by that time was incorporated and had a population of several thousand persons) and Fort Dearborn by about three miles (5 km), the new inn was better situated because it was located on the Wabash Road (in Blue Island now Western Avenue), which was then a part of the Vincennes trail that went from Chicago to Vincennes, Indiana. It was considerably larger and more refined than Rexford's previous venture, being a two and a half story white frame building that also had various outbuildings to accommodate the needs of his guests. Because it was a day's journey from Chicago, within a few years the inn became the nucleus for a group of businesses that catered to the soldiers, cattlemen (with their herds) and other travelers who arrived by stagecoach [9] or otherwise frequented the Vincennes trail. From this time and through the 1970s, Blue Island's central business district ('uptown' to the locals) was regarded as an important regional commercial center[10] , with stores such as Woolworth's, Kline's, Sears, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel and Steak 'n Shake. Today, downtown Blue Island is better known for its antique stores, art galleries, ethnic delicatessens and fine dining.

Writers and literature

Over the years, Blue Island has provided the setting for the works of at least a couple of writers. In 1935, for example, the Pulitzer Prize winning author Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the novel Edna, His Wife, an American Idyll, using Blue Island as the first locale of the four that make up her story (the other three being Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York City). The book is the story of the life of a simple country girl who was raised in Blue Island but becomes increasingly unhappy as she becomes older and leads a more sophisticated life elsewhere. The book was later adapted into a play by Cornelia Otis Skinner. It is not known if Barnes had a personal connection with Blue Island, but it is clear to anyone who knows the town and has read the book that if she didn't, she researched its history and makeup thoroughly to give the reader an authentic view of life in Blue Island in the early years of the twentieth century.