Quiet and small, this south side residential neighborhood holds strong community ties and block after block of modest ranches, providing comfortable living for families of all sizes. Green lawns go as far as the eye can see in Cottage Grove Heights, which favors private houses over multi-unit buildings. Most folks here enjoy all the perks of owning their own home like backyard barbecues and planting flower gardens in the spring.
Cottage Grove Heights was settled and incorporated into Chicago thanks in part to the railroad—specifically, the rail car building industry.
During the 1800s, George Pullman, the creator of the Pullman Palace Car (the comfortable sleeping and parlor cars for passenger trains), built a plant south of the city to manufacture his cars. So what if this Pullman guy put up a factory, you say? Well, we’d say the same thing if that had been all.
However, in addition to the large plant, Pullman built an entire company town that provided a place for his employees and their families to live—talk about short commute times! This planned community, aptly named Pullman, was heralded as an enormous success and garnered a number of "world’s best town" awards. Eventually, poor wages and high (company controlled) rents led to worker strikes, which then led to the government stepping in and selling the town of Pullman to Chicago in 1898. Even after the land became part of the city, the Pullman area was considered a very nice place to live. As a result, smaller residential enclaves sprung up around it, such as Cottage Grove Heights.
The Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood was named after Cottage Grove Avenue, which forms the western border of the community. The road was a former Native American trail that was dubbed Cottage Grove Avenue by Charles Cleaver. Cleaver was a wealthy factory owner who was in the smelly soap and lard-rendering business, which was (at the time) luckily located in a remote territory south of Cottage Grove Heights. As part of his numerous land holdings, Cleaver named Cottage Grove Avenue after the grove of trees that surrounded a cottage on his property.
Today Cottage Grove Heights remains pretty much what it was in its inception—a quiet residential neighborhood with tight neighborly ties and a reasonably diverse makeup. Commercial developments have been pretty sparse in the area, but it does provide a pleasant place to live, with easy access to other parts of the city.
Cottage Grove Heights facts
Location: Approximately 14 miles south of the Loop Boundaries: 95th Street to the north, Dorchester Avenue to the east, the Bishop Ford Freeway Extender to the south and Cottage Grove Avenue to the west Bordering Neighborhoods:Burnside, Rosemoor, Pullman Crime Statistics: Go to CLEARMap for crime stats on specific Chicago neighborhood, intersection, address or police beat.
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The streets of Cottage Grove Heights provide the idyllic image of an average residential community. Cars are parked along the curbs of homes that lack a driveway and trees dot moderate lawns that require a mower for upkeep—no teeny tiny garden-size lots here. In addition to plenty of room for flower beds, shrubs and any other lawn decoration you like (please don’t put out any of those tacky pink flamingoes), these properties offer up space for that weekend barbeque in the summer or snow fort in the winter. Primarily one- and two-story brick houses, bungalows and raised ranches line the roads, providing housing for scores of families.
Brick was the principle building material for the homes of Cottage Grove Heights. Most of these homes follow a simple architectural design and a number of them have been standing since fairly near the Pullman company town days (albeit with sizable renovations over the years). Generally, the price for a three- or four-bedroom house ranges from $130,000 to $190,000, but there are two-bedroom homes for as low as $90,000 to start. Granted a place for that price is bound to need a little work, so don’t forget to budget some bucks for a few home improvements.
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