Hey, Curious City intern Linnea Dominic here.

It's week three of the scavenger hunt.

Hopefully you're learning a lot about Chicago's community areas and trying new foods.

To a, what's your appetite for learning more about the many community areas here,

we're featuring neighborhood-specific episodes during the scavenger hunt, a side dish, if you will.

This week, we're going back to an episode from 2016.

The Eisenhower Expressway cuts a swath through the neighborhoods west of downtown Chicago.

Many communities were deeply impacted by its construction in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Who lived there before?

And what were those neighborhoods like?

Reporter Robert Lorizel has the story.

If you drive in the Chicago area, you've probably been stuck in traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway.

Jillian Zarlinga sure has. She lives in Oak Park, and she used to sit in traffic jams back when she commuted to a job as a chaplain at Elmhurst Hospital. I had a lot of time sitting on

the Eisenhower examining this huge area of land, thinking there must have been a lot of people that

lived here before and I was just curious where they all went.

To answer Gillian's question, I'll take you through neighborhoods and suburbs that were transformed

or even torn apart by the Eisenhower back when it was constructed between 1949 and 1961.

We'll go from east to west along the Ike, which runs almost due west, from the loop out to Oak Park and beyond. As we dig in, here are things to keep in mind.

First, the scale was massive. Within the city, 13,000 people and more than 400 businesses were forced

to move. Interestingly, Chicago's west side was not predominantly African American like it is today.

In 1950, neighborhoods along the highway's path were 19% black, compared with 70% now.

Most of the displaced Chicagoans were white or less often Hispanic.

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