South Chicago, Chicago

South Chicago
Community area
Community Area 46 - South Chicago
Baltimore Avenue at 92nd Street
Location within the city of Chicago
Coordinates: 41°44.4′N 87°33′W / 41.7400°N 87.550°W / 41.7400; -87.550
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Neighborhoods	list South Shore
Area
• Total	3.34 sq mi (8.65 km2)
Population  (2020)
• Total	27,300
• Density	8,200/sq mi (3,200/km2)
Demographics 2020[1]
• White	2.9%
• Black	75.3%
• Hispanic	20.6%
• Asian	0.4%
• Other	0.9%
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	parts of 60617
Median household income	$28,504[1]
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services - see Discussion page

South Chicago, formerly known as Ainsworth, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois.

This chevron-shaped community is one of Chicago's 16 lakefront neighborhoods near the southern rim of Lake Michigan 10 miles south of downtown. A working-class neighborhood, it is bordered by East 79th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue (the Chicago Skyway) on the southwest, a small stretch of East 95th Street on the south. With the Calumet River on the community's southeast side, South Chicago can be considered the gateway to the Calumet Region and the one of the four Chicago neighborhoods (East Side, Hegewisch and South Deering) that are considered by the locals as part of Chicago's Southeast Side. The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities.