Trumbull Park Homes, Public housing complex in South Deering, Chicago, US.
Trumbull Park Homes is a public housing development in the South Deering neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, made up of dozens of low-rise brick apartment buildings arranged across several city blocks. The development is managed by the Chicago Housing Authority and sits between 105th and 109th Streets, near Bensley and Oglesby Avenues.
The development was built in 1938 under a federal program aimed at providing housing for working families, and it remained a mostly white community for its first years. In the 1950s, it became the center of a national controversy when Black families moved in and faced months of protests and violence from some white residents.
The complex takes its name from the nearby Trumbull Park, which sits adjacent to the housing development and remains a gathering spot for local families today. The low-rise buildings and open green spaces give the area a neighborhood feel that sets it apart from denser parts of Chicago.
This is an active residential area where people live, so visitors should be respectful of residents and their privacy. Walking along the surrounding streets gives a good sense of the place without entering private areas.
Writer Frank London Brown lived in the development and drew on his own experience there to write his 1959 novel 'Trumbull Park', one of the few novels set entirely within a Chicago public housing complex. The book puts a human face on the desegregation tensions that played out here over several years.
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