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Trumbull Park Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far-South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Built in 1938, it consists of 55 buildings and 434 apartments. [ 2 ]
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.
Marquette Park: Chicago Lawn: 315 acres (127 ha) The largest park in southwest Chicago; has a golf course and many other attractions Millennium Park: Chicago Loop: 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) Chicago's newest marquee park, opened in 2004, just north of the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.
According to the Office québécois de la langue française, Otterburn Park has been officially recognized as a bilingual municipality since 1978-04-22. [6] [7]In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Otterburn Park had a population of 8,479 living in 3,335 of its 3,381 total private dwellings, a change of 0.7% from its 2016 population of 8,421.
It was home to the editorial and business offices of Playboy magazine until 1989, when Playboy moved its offices to 680 N Lake Shore Drive. Playboy had sold the leasehold in 1980 and signed a 10-year lease that expired in 1990. The new leaseholder renamed the building 919 North Michigan Avenue. [2]
The Chicago Park District oversees more than 600 parks with over 8,800 acres (3,600 ha) of municipal parkland including their field houses, as well as 27 beaches, 78 pools, 11 museums, two world-class botanical conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens that are found within the city limits. [3]
West Pullman is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois.It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. The neighborhood was initially inhabited by workers of the Pullman Train Company looking to escape the grip of the company town, but soon swelled with industrial workers of all stripes.