| Englewood, with
about 40,000 inhabitants, is one of the 77 official
community areas of Chicago. It is located on the southwest
side of Chicago, Illinois. Englewood was once known
as "Junction Grove" [1].
The original inhabitants of what
is now Englewood were Mascouten Indians. The land was
swampy prairie. In 1840, Englewood was officially documented
as habital land to the United States Government Land
Office in Chicago.
In the 1850s and 60's, as Chicago
was becoming a city of railroad tracks and economic
prosperity, Englewood was just another supporting neighborhood.
But in 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed a
large portion of Chicago, residents moved to the outskirts.
Englewood's railroad connections
to downtown Chicago made it a convenient location, and
the neighborhood's population boomed. Englewood Station
once served many railroad passengers; at one point over
1,000 trains would pass through Englewood every day.
The City of Chicago annexed Englewood in 1889. Englewood
was the home of Dr. H. H. Holmes, one of the first serial
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