Why Chicago’s Roseland Lost Its Department Store but Kept a Doughnut Shop

Chicago Uprooted tells the story of one Chicago neighborhood at a time: how it was built, and why its people left. Subscribe for a new neighborhood every week. In Roseland, on Chicago's far South Side, a department store and a doughnut shop faced each other across Michigan Avenue. This documentary follows Gately's Peoples Store, whose doughnut machine drew crowds for decades, and the small shop Burritt Bulloch opened across the street in 1972, through the housing rules, the panic selling, the closing of the steel mills and the decisions that left the Ave behind. Did you shop at Gately's on Michigan Avenue, or stop for doughnuts across the street? Share your memories in the comments. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:41 High Road 4:53 Everything for the Home 7:29 The Doughnut Machine 10:55 Fernwood 13:32 Panic 16:08 Across the Street 18:14 One Dollar 20:58 The Last Car 23:55 The Sign Stayed Up 29:15 11248 South Michigan Image credits Chicago Public Library (Chicago Department of Urban Renewal Records; Chicago Park District Records; Chicago Sewers Collection, Special Collections) University of Illinois Chicago Library (Richard J. Daley Collection; James S. Parker Collection) Licensed photos via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, modified: CC BY 2.0: Nitram242, Paul Sableman, Payton Chung, David Wilson, John VanderHaagen, Matthew Dillon, RuggyBearLA, vaticanus, IMLS Digital Collections & Content CC BY 3.0: Loco Steve CC BY 4.0: AlphaBeta135 CC BY-SA 2.0: Jacob G., Ken Lund CC BY-SA 3.0: AlphaBeta135, Lokilech CC BY-SA 4.0: Warren LeMay Maps use data from the City of Chicago Data Portal. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of the data.