Onetime neighbors look back on oldest N. Side black enclave: 300 mark century since tiny Uptown block was settled

A tiny block sits in the shadow of North Broadway in Uptown. The4600 block of Winthrop Avenue makes a jazzy zig and zag before itvanishes into Leland Avenue. This street, so narrow, is a grandtribute to possibility.

This block is the oldest African-American community on the NorthSide.

It produced Judson Jenkins, one of the first black detectives inthe Chicago Police Department; Eddie Baker, who played piano withBillie Holiday, and his younger brother Robert "Bobby" Baker, aformer saxophone player with the Chicago rock-soul band Baby Huey andthe Babysitters and now a psychiatrist in Libertyville. ActorHarrison Ford went to the neighborhood's Graeme-Stewart grade …