Chicago Lawn, also known as “Marquette Park,” is a community six miles southwest of Loop with its borders at 50^th Street north, 75^th Street south, Western Avenue east, and Pulaski West.

The community is dominated on the southern portion by 300-acres of parkland, but developers have begun to make efforts to build on this land. The presence of the stockyards brought in Irish, Germans, Poles, and Lithuanians in the early 1920’s. This is reflected in the many churches, religious schools, and church organizations that are scattered throughout Chicago Lawn’s landscape.

Referred to sometimes as the “Bungalow Belt,” this type of single-family home is the dominant housing style in this family oriented and close knit community.