Pill Hill, Chicago

Pill Hill is a neighborhood in the Calumet Heights community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

[1] Several sources more loosely define Pill Hill as the entire Calumet Heights region and use the names interchangeably to refer to the whole area.

[1] The moniker is attributed to the preponderance of doctors employed at the nearby South Chicago Community Hospital who reside in the grand homes situated atop the Stony Island ridge.

[1][6][7] A play by Yale School of Drama graduate Sam Kelley entitled Pill Hill was set in this neighborhood.

[8][9] Pill Hill is credited by one Chicago Sun-Times author as one of the few communities to host civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson during the 1960s.