Communities

Greenline Homes builds throughout the City of Chicago but focuses on Southside communities where suitable lots are both available and affordable:

These are among Chicago’s most historic and dynamic neighborhoods, more about them below.

 
New construction, green, net-zero, urban homes in the Woodlawn and Bronzeville areas of Chicago.

Woodlawn

Woodlawn offers urban amenities with a neighborhood feel, strong transit connections, and ongoing investment that’s attracting families. Recognizing the extraordinary value as well as need for middle-class housing for existing and newer residents, we have been building here since 1999.

Around Woodlawn

Jackson Park is on Woodlawn’s eastern end: Woodlawn was home to Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair along Lake Michigan in Jackson Park. Today the Obama Presidential Center, featuring a museum, Chicago Public Library branch and, per city of Chicago, other area improvements is set to open in 2026 in the same spot. 

To the south along 67th Street sits Oak Woods Cemetery, one of the city’s oldest burial grounds. It’s home to memorials to Confederate prisoners of war, Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, physicist Enrico Fermi and former Mayor Harold Washington, among many others. 

To the north, Midway Plaisance, also built as part of the World’s Fair, hosted the first of many amusement parks in the area. As the birthplace of football at (surprisingly) University of Chicago, the boulevard flanked by university buildings gave rise to the phrase “Monsters of the Midway.”

To the west is Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Lorraine Hansberry wrote her famous playA Raisin in the Sun about growing up black in a white neighborhood after her family moved to 6140 S. Rhodes in West Woodlawn in 1937. Her father Carl Hansberry’s lawsuit against racial covenants in the area was decided by the Supreme Court. 

What’s happening in Woodlawn

Woodlawn has been the site of recent housing development, including many of Greenline Homes’ rowhouses, single-family homes and two-flats. The community has also seen community institutions and investment flourish in recent years. These include a new Jewel and new homes and commercial spaces developed by Preservation of Affordable Housing. 

Recent years have also seen the continued growth of Experimental Station, home to one of the city’s largest farmer’s markets and emerging cultural attractions such as the Emmett Till and Mamie Til-Mobley House museum recently announced by Blacks in Green and Black Wall Street annual event.

Schools in the area include Chicago Public Schools’ Andrew Carnegie Elementary (regional gifted center, IB program) and other CPS pre-K-8 schools, Hyde Park, Kenwood Academy, and other high schools, as well as University of Chicago Charter Woodlawn campus (grades 6-12), and private schools such as UChicago Lab Schools, Mt. Carmel, and the O-School—to name just a few. 

Transportation Woodlawn transportation options include the Green Line el, Metra, Numbers 2, 55, 63 and other bus lines, plus easy access to the Dan Ryan expressway and Lake Shore Drive.

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Chicago Neighborhood Walking Tour: Woodlawn

Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Woodlawn

University of Chicago Chicago Studies: Woodlawn

Washington Park (Chicago Park District)

Bronzeville

Bronzeville is both a dynamic, growing area and one of the city’s most historic places. Along with access to Lake Michigan and downtown it offers a growing number of local amenities.

The name Bronzeville may not appear on Chicago’s “official” list of 77 neighborhoods, but that may be just as well: thanks to recent growth, the neighborhood’s unofficial boundaries do a better job describing the community. Block Club Chicago’s Jamie Nesbitt Golden wrote in February 2025 that:

“In the new map drawn by residents, Bronzeville is one giant swath between the Stevenson Expressway to the north, 51st Street to the south and the Dan Ryan expressway to the west…. As the neighborhood rebounds, so have the boundaries.”

Golden’s boundaries reflect a similar footprint for the Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area recognized by the National Park Service in 2023, making it officially one of the nation’s most historic urban neighborhoods, known as the birthplace of Gospel music, Black History Month and much more—in spite of covenants and other racially motivated policies that restricted where Black people could live.

Around Bronzeville

To the east sits 39th Street Beach. Just west of there are the Metra Electric train tracks and former Michael Reese Hospital site, currently set to receive infrastructure investment for Bronzeville Lakefront, a new, mixed-use health innovation district.

The southern end of Bronzeville runs along 51st Street including Washington Park. The neighborhoods of Grand Crossing and Douglas in this area include homes, schools, and an award-winning new community gathering space South Side Sanctuary, at 47th and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.

Recent infrastructure investment in the area includes streetscape upgrades on 43rd and 47th streets. Other investment has come in the form of a new Northwestern Medicine Bronzeville Outpatient Center, opening fall 2025.

To the west, the Dan Ryan Expressway and Rock Island District line railroad (with a stop at 35th Street adjacent to the White Sox’ Rate Field) form a neighborhood boundary. Illinois Institute of Technology is nearby, along with clusters of townhomes that have developed over the past decade or so.

On the northern end, Bronzeville meets the Near South Side along Cermak Road just north of the Stevenson Expressway. This area includes development of new restaurants and hotels around McCormick Place and Bronzeville’s Motor Row on Michigan Avenue, home to some of the city’s first car dealerships. A key “gateway” to Bronzeville here is the Monument To The Great Northern Migration sculpture, commemorating African Americans who traveled to the area from parts of the South to help create what became the Black Metropolis.



What’s happening in Bronzeville

A Mariano’s, a Commonwealth Edison-supported electric microgrid, restaurants such as Bronzeville Winery, Pearl's Place  and Shawn Michelle’s Homemade Ice Cream, plus art galleries and museums such as Gallery Guichard and South Side Community Art Center (set for expansion) are a few examples of recent developments. In July 2025, Mayor Brandon Johnson helped break ground for Savoy Square, a mixed-use commercial and residential development adjacent to our own new homes going up at 44th and Dearborn.

Schools in the area include Chicago Public Schools’ K-8 Bronzeville Classical and pre-K through 8 Beasley Academic Center, plus King College Prep and Walter H. Dyett Arts high schools to name a few.

Transportation Public transit options include the CTA Green Line, nearby Red Line and Metra Electric stops as well as the Numbers 1, 3, 4, 29, 35, and 47 are among other bus lines. The Dan Ryan, Lake Shore Drive, and Stevenson are all easily accessible, as well.



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