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Wentworth Gardens is a 344-unit housing project operated by the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA). It lies just south of Rate Field in Bronzeville on Chicago's south side. [ 1 ]
Chicago Botanic Garden: Glencoe Downers Grove Park District ... Naperville Oak Park Conservatory: Oak Park: Don Opel Arboretum ...
Armour Square is a Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.
Wentworth Gardens: Armour Square (South Side) 1944–45: Named for its street location and the major league baseball team that used to play at its baseball field. Stretching from 39th & Wentworth to 37th and Wells. Consists of a 4 block area of 2-story row-houses, 3 mid-rise buildings; renovated. Washington Park Homes: Bronzeville (South Side ...
Stateway Gardens was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway just north of the former Robert Taylor Homes, and part of the State Street Corridor that also included Dearborn Homes, Harold Ickes Homes and Hillard Homes.
The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African-American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. The neighborhood encompasses the land between the Dan Ryan Expressway to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the east, 31st Street to the north, and ...
Illinois Route 59 runs through the center of Plainfield with US-30 but leads north 9 miles (14 km) to the west side of Naperville and south 6 miles (10 km) to Shorewood. According to the 2010 census, Plainfield has a total area of 24.199 square miles (62.68 km 2 ), of which 23.22 square miles (60.14 km 2 ) (or 95.95%) is land and 0.979 square ...
Opened in an 1893 mansion in Bronzeville, it became the first black art museum in the United States [2] and has been an important center for developing Chicago's African American artists. [1] Of more than 100 community art centers established by the WPA, this is the only one that remains open. The center was awarded Chicago Landmark status in ...