Roseland, located on the far south side of the city, is one of the 77 official community areas

Community areas of Chicago

Community areas in Chicago refers to the work of the Social Science Research Committee at University of Chicago which has unofficially divided the City of Chicago into 77 community areas. These areas are well-defined and static...

 of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood

Fernwood, Chicago

Fernwood, is an area on the western edge of Roseland community of the City of Chicago, between 99th and 103rd streets. It was considered an "upscale" neighborhood of Roseland and extended west into the Washington Heights community up to Halsted street. Sometimes referred to as West Roseland, it...

, Princeton Park

Princeton Park

Located in the Northwest corner of Roseland community of the City of Chicago, Princeton Park is a community of single family homes built in 1944. Originally, it was a subdivision of low cost multi-family row houses between 91st and 95th streets and Wentworth and Harvard streets. The eastern...

, Lilydale

Lilydale, Chicago

Lilydale was a small enclave of modest homes in the northwest corner of Roseland that represents a microcosm of African-American self determination. In the 1920s and '30s the thinly populated area was referred to as little more than a "cabbage patch"...

, West Chesterfield, Rosemoor, Sheldon Heights and West Roseland. Roseland was settled in the 1840s by Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 immigrants who called the area "de Hooge Prairie", the High Prairie because it was built on higher, drier ground than the earlier Dutch settlement several miles further south of the Little Calumet River which was called "de Laage Prairie", the Low Prairie, now South Holland, Illinois

South Holland, Illinois

South Holland is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States and serves as the seat of Thornton Township. The population was 22,147 at the 2000 census.-History:...

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The community was entirely agrarian until the late 19th century when the town of Pullman, Chicago

Pullman, Chicago

Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop, Pullman is situated adjacent Lake Calumet....

 was built between Roseland and Lake Calumet

Lake Calumet

Lake Calumet is the largest body of water within the city of Chicago. Formerly a shallow, postglacial lake draining into Lake Michigan, it has been changed beyond recognition by industrial redevelopment and decay...

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