Washington Park Court
District of Chicago
Illinois - United States

Robert Taylor Homes

The Robert Taylor Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, on State Street between Pershing Road (39th Street) and 54th Street alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Located at 41.8137, -87.6278 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois, Public housing in Chicago, Illinois, Urban decay in the United States, Residential buildings completed in 1962, Former buildings and structures in Chicago, Illinois, Skyscrapers in Chicago, Illinois, Demolished buildings and structures in the United States, Populated places in Illinois with African American majority populations

Stagg Field

Amos Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two different football fields for the University of Chicago. The earliest Stagg Field is probably best remembered for its role in a landmark scientific achievement by Enrico Fermi during the Manhattan Project. The site of the first nuclear reaction received designation as a National Historic Landmark on February 18, 1965.

Located at 41.7939, -87.6039 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Chicago Maroons football, College football venues, Defunct college football venues, Defunct American football venues, Sports venues in Chicago, Illinois

DuSable High School

DuSable High School was a public 4-year high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois USA. It was operated by Chicago Public Schools. The school was named after Chicago's first permanent non-native settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. DuSable was built to accommodate the growing Phillips High School in the 1930s. The campus was renamed. DuSable's initial fame was in its music program.

Located at 41.8046, -87.6251 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Educational institutions established in 1934, Chicago Public Schools, Public high schools in Chicago, Illinois

Gerald Ratner Athletics Center

The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center is a $51 million athletics facility within the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. The building was named after University of Chicago alumnus, Gerald Ratner. The architect of this suspension structure that is supported by masts, cables and counterweights was César Pelli, who is best known as the architect of the Petronas Towers.

Located at 41.7941, -87.6018 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Sports venues in Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Modernist architecture in Illinois, High-tech architecture, Suspension structures, Postmodern architecture in the United States, Sports venues completed in 2003

Indiana (CTA station)

Indiana is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 4003 S Indiana Avenue, two blocks east of State Street. It opened on August 15, 1892. Before the two lines closed, Indiana was a transfer station from the Englewood-Jackson Park Line to the Stock Yards and Kenwood branches of the CTA. Indiana is one of two stations on the 'L' that is built on an S-curve, with Sheridan on the Red Line being the other.

Located at 41.8217, -87.6214 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1892

43rd (CTA station)

43rd is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 314 E 43rd Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opened on August 15, 1892.

Located at 41.8165, -87.619 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1892

47th (CTA Green Line station)

47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 314 E 47th Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opened on August 15, 1892.

Located at 41.8094, -87.6191 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1892

51st (CTA station)

51st is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line. It is situated at 319 E 51st Street, three blocks east of State Street. It opened on August 28, 1892.

Located at 41.8022, -87.619 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1892

Garfield (CTA Green Line station)

Garfield is one of two stations on Garfield Boulevard in Chicago. It serves the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system's Green Line. It is situated at 319 E Garfield Boulevard, three blocks east of State Street. It opened on October 12, 1892. This station is the southernmost consolidated Green Line station: south of Garfield, the Green Line splits into two branches, one terminating at Ashland/63rd, and one at Cottage Grove.

Located at 41.7945, -87.6183 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1892

47th (CTA Red Line station)

47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway north of the West 47th Street overpass in the Fuller Park neighborhood. Access to the station is available from a staircase from the middle of the north side of the overpass, where an open canopy crosswalk with traffic signals leads to a bus stop on the south side.

Located at 41.8103, -87.6309 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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CTA Red Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1969

Savoy Ballroom (Chicago)

The Savoy Ballroom in Chicago, United States was opened on Thanksgiving Eve, November 23, 1927 at 4733 South Parkway. Originally featuring primarily Jazz artists, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, the Savoy also hosted other activities, such as boxing, figure skating, and basketball exhibitions featuring the Savoy Big Five, who would later change their name to the Harlem Globetrotters.

Located at 41.8092, -87.6159 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Nightclubs in Chicago, Illinois

Al-Sadiq Mosque

The Al Sadiq Mosque (Wabash Mosque) was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of Chicago. This mosque was funded with the money donated by African-American converts and Ahmadis in India.

Located at 41.8132, -87.6248 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Ahmadiyya mosques, Mosques in Illinois, Places of worship in Chicago, Illinois, Religious buildings completed in 1922, 20th-century mosques

Legends South

Legends South is proposed mixed-income housing development located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago. It will include nearly 2,400 new mixed-income rental and home ownership units. In 1996 HOPE VI funds were granted specifically for Legends South to replace the infamous Robert Taylor Homes.

Located at 41.8137, -87.6278 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois

KAM Isaiah Israel

KAM Isaiah Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in Chicago, with its oldest core founded in 1847 as Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav ("Congregation of the Men of the West", probably referring to the Middle-west, abbreviated as KAM). In 1922, KAM moved from its Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler designed temple in Bronzeville to a private residence in Hyde Park. The former temple became the Pilgrim Baptist Church and was the birthplace of Gospel music.

Located at 41.8026, -87.5986 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Synagogues in Chicago, Illinois, Landmarks in Chicago, Illinois, Religious organizations established in 1847, Neo-Byzantine synagogues, Religious buildings completed in 1924, 20th-century synagogues, Reform synagogues in the United States

Hales Franciscan High School

Hales Franciscan High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

Located at 41.805, -87.6069 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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North Kenwood District

The North Kenwood District is a historic district in the Kenwood community area of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the 4500-block of South Berkeley, as well as surrounding historic structures in an area bounded by 43rd Street, 47th Street, Cottage Grove, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. The area was designated a Chicago Landmark district on June 9, 1993. The Kenwood Evangelical Church, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places is in this neighborhood.

Located at 41.8133, -87.6005 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Historic districts in Chicago, Illinois, Landmarks in Chicago, Illinois

Harold Washington Cultural Center

Harold Washington Cultural Center is a performance facility located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened August 17, 2004 ten years after initial groundbreaking. In addition to the 1000 seat Com-Ed Theatre, the center offers a Digital Media Resource Center.

Located at 41.8093, -87.6161 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory

The Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory was the personal observatory of George Ellery Hale, constructed by his father, William E. Hale, in 1890 at the family home in the Kenwood section of Chicago. It was here that the spectroheliograph, which Hale had invented while attending MIT, was first put to practical use; and it was here that Hale established the Astrophysical Journal.

Located at 41.8117, -87.6031 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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University of Chicago, Astronomical observatories in Illinois, Defunct astronomical observatories

Court Theatre (Chicago)

The Court Theatre is a professional theatre located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Court Theatre is affiliated with the University of Chicago, receiving in-kind support from the University and operating within the larger University umbrella. The Court Theatre puts on five plays per season which are attended by over 35,000 people each year.

Located at 41.794, -87.6009 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Provident Hospital (Chicago)

Provident Hospital, the first Black-owned and operated hospital in America, was established in Chicago in 1891 by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams an African American surgeon during the time in American history where few public or private medical facilities were open to Black citizens.

Located at 41.8026, -87.6135 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Hospitals in Chicago, Illinois

58th (CTA station)

58th was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Green Line in the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station was located at 320-24 E. 58th Street. 58th opened on January 22, 1893, as part of the South Side Elevated Railroad's expansion to serve the World's Columbian Exposition. The station closed with the rest of the Green Line on January 9, 1994, to be rebuilt, but never reopened after the renovation.

Located at 41.7892, -87.618 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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CTA Green Line stations, Railway stations opened in 1893, Railway stations closed in 1994, Defunct Chicago 'L' stations

King College Prep High School

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College Preparatory High School (commonly known as King College Prep) is a public 4-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Kenwood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. King is one of the Chicago Public School System's eight selective enrollment schools, which means that its approximately 900 students must apply for acceptance, based on academic achievement and test scores.

Located at 41.8138, -87.6029 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Bronzeville Scholastic Institute

Bronzeville Scholastic Institute is a public 4-year high school in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the DuSable Campus, and shares a building with Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine and DuSable Leadership Academy.

Located at 41.8049, -87.625 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago)

The Regal Theater, located in the heart of Bronzeville on Chicago's south side, was an important night club and music venue in Chicago. Part of the Balaban and Katz chain, the lavishly decorated venue, with plush carpeting and velvet drapes featured some of the most celebrated black entertainers in America. The Regal also featured motion pictures and live stage shows.

Located at 41.8092, -87.6158 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Jazz clubs in the United States, Music venues in Chicago, Illinois, Defunct jazz clubs

Dyett Academic Center

Dyett Academic Center (commonly known as Dyett High School) is a public 4-year high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is part of the Chicago Public Schools. It's named for American violinist and music educator Walter Henri Dyett. The school opened as an elementary school in 1972 before becoming a neighborhood high school in 1999.

Located at 41.8012, -87.6123 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Chicago Public Schools, Public high schools in Chicago, Illinois, Educational institutions established in 1972