It’s time to write a new story for West Garfield Park — and all the West Side

The Garfield Park Fieldhouse, 100 N. Central Park Ave. is among the many assets on Chicago’s West Side. (Quinn Harris/For the Sun-Times.)

Chicago’s turnaround in the 55 years after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is a point of civic pride.

And why wouldn’t it be? By 1926, Chicago — almost insatiably driven to rebuild after the big blaze — had turned itself from a dirty, at times ramshackle, prairie city to a mature metropolis of 3 million with a major national and international presence.