Video Gaming Terminals in 60655 (Mount Greenwood, Chicago)

History

A cemetery started the place. In 1879 George Waite laid out a burial ground on a wooded ridge and called the area Mount Greenwood; more cemeteries followed, until eight of them bounded the district, which picked up the nickname Seven Holy Tombs. The place was its own village for twenty years, and its residents once took picks and shovels to a cemetery's drainage ditch and filled it in themselves. Village voters approved joining Chicago by 401 to 382, and the city took the village in during 1927, putting Engine Company 92 on 111th Street that September. A strip of land along 103rd Street, annexed in 1914 with Morgan Park, had been the link to the rest of the city. The Works Progress Administration laid sewers and street lights in the 1930s, and builders put up 4,000 homes from 1945 to 1953; the population grew from 12,331 in 1950 to 21,941 in 1960. Saint Xavier University moved here in 1956. In the early 1980s a citizens' committee formed to save the Board of Education's 1846 farm at 111th and Pulaski, which it called Chicago's last farm, and the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences was created on it in 1985.

The area today

Most of this ZIP is Mount Greenwood, with 111th Street as its spine. Along the eastern side, between Western and Sacramento Avenues, it takes in the west edge of Beverly above about 107th Street and a slice of Morgan Park below it. Mount Greenwood Park, at 3721 W. 111th St., covers 52.53 acres, with a pool, an ice rink and a playground whose artworks include mosaic obelisks and metal musical sculptures. Saint Xavier University sits at 3700 W. 103rd St. The Beverly Review reported in July 2026 that St. Christina parish serves roughly 8,200 parishioners, and its pastor described grandparents living on the same block as their grandchildren. At the ZIP's eastern edge, the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., has run arts programs since 1967 and offers classes and live shows.

Bars and restaurants here

If your room is on 111th Street just west of Sacramento Avenue, your neighbors include Hippo's, a bar by the railroad tracks at 3011 W. 111th St.; Tata's Pizza at 3019, with tavern-style pies and a patio; and Barraco's at 3047, a pizza restaurant with a sports bar, a dining room and a private patio. Farther west, Knights of Columbus Council 1444, founded in 1909, keeps its clubhouse at 3422 W. 111th St., and S&T Provisions, an Italian deli at 3804 W. 111th St., opened in 1960. Block Club Chicago's September 2026 reporting says stalled trains at the crossing near Sacramento Avenue have been an issue for years, according to business owners.