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05000108 [1] Added to NRHP. February 28, 2005. The Garden Homes Historic District is a residential historic district located in the Chatham neighborhood of the South Side, Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 152 residential buildings, 88 of which are contributing buildings, built in 1919-20 as Chicago's first large housing project.
There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Placeslistings in South Side Chicago— of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois. The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, to the ...
The CTA Red Line stations at 79th street and 87th street are in the Chatham community area. The Metra Electric District , which provides daily service between downtown Chicago at Millennium Station and the southern destinations of University Park and Blue Island , runs along the eastern border of Chatham and has stops at the 79th Street station ...
87th is an 'L' station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line.The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and serves the Chatham neighborhood. There are two entrances to the station, one on the south side of the 87th Street overpass which served as the only entrance from 1969 until 2006 and one on the north side of the overpass which was opened as part of the Dan Ryan ...
Chicago Public Library operates the Thurgood Marshall Branch in Auburn Gresham at W. 75th St. and S. Racine Ave. The 13,500 square foot library, which features a 125-seat auditorium, reading garden, and several artworks, opened in April 1994. [6] [7] St. Sabina Church is located in the community, headed by Rev. Michael Pfleger. The church and ...
From 1912 to 1917, the Fine Arts Building housed the Chicago Little Theatre, an art theater credited with beginning the Little Theatre Movement in the United States. Not being able to afford rental on the building's 500-seat auditorium, co-producers Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg rented a large storage space on the fourth floor at the back and built it out into a 91-seat house. [14]
Chicago College of Performing Arts. Coordinates: 42°03′14″N 88°02′20″W. Logo of Chicago College of Performing Arts. Chicago College of Performing Arts is a performing arts college that is housed at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The college has two divisions: the Music Conservatory and the Theatre Conservatory.
Built. 1927 (97 years ago) (1927) Opened. 1979 (45 years ago) (1979) Website. metrochicago.com. Metro (formerly the Stages Music Hall and Cabaret Metro[1]) is a concert hall in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that plays host to a variety of local, regional and national emerging bands and musicians. [2] The Metro was first opened in 1982.