One woman who grew up in West Lincoln Park in the ’70s documents her childhood in that then-kinda-rough neighborhood. The Sun-Times has the story:
In 1973, young Pam Taylor and her family were the subjects of the documentary “Now We Live on Clifton,” which captured the family’s daily life in the gentrifying West Lincoln Park neighborhood around DePaul University.
“It was a racially diverse, working-class neighborhood,” Taylor, now 48, recalled Tuesday. “And even though we saw change happening all around us, it was still a great place to grow up.”
“Now We Live on Clifton” airs at 9:25 p.m. Thursday on WTTW-Channel 11 as part of an ongoing celebration marking the 45th anniversary of Kartemquin Films, which made the movie.
The film not only captures a foreign-looking Lincoln Park but also offers a time capsule of urban family life in a more innocent time, when kids played football in empty fields, dared each other to jump off garage roofs and joined in a family dinner every night.
Read more: ‘Clifton’ showed how the yuppies took over West Lincoln Park – Chicago Sun-Times.