"South Works is an area in the South Chicago part of Chicago, Illinois, near the mouth of the Calumet River, that was previously home to a now-closed and vacant US Steel manufacturing plant. The area is called \"South Works\" because that was the name of the now-shuttered steel plant. The use of the word \"works,\" following a common name of the area in which the plant was located, was how US Steel named its plants back then."@en .