This week, to close out Black History Month, we’re talking Bronzeville. The Black Metropolis south of the Loop along the lakefront has a rich history of culture and entrepreneurship. It’s been home to great writers, artists, musicians, politicians and intellectuals. Now it’s the subject of a new limited series from Crain’s. Hosted by Crain's residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin, the debut of Crain’s Four-Star Stories takes a look at the neighborhood’s recent real estate transformation. It charts Bronzeville’s history –– from the influx of Black Southerners during the Great Migration, through different eras of racial segregation, the rise and fall of its public housing towers, and the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway, to today, when some of the neighborhood’s 3,000 vacant lots are being turned into new housing worth upwards of half a million dollars each. Rodkin and Sherry Williams, founder of the Bronzeville Historical Society, discuss what they are seeing on the ground in the neighborhood. Williams also explains her own family history coming to Bronzeville, and what she hears from her friends and neighbors about the booming real estate market. Both Rodkin and Williams also describe which Bronzeville real estate projects to watch for in the coming years.