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It extends south and east to the city limits, generally keeping between Lake Michigan and Lake Calumet. [1] Politically, the Southeast side is contiguous with the 10th Ward. There are many neighborhoods within the boundaries of the Southeast side, including Windsor Park, Calumet, Hyde Park, Bronzeville, Chatham South Chicago , the East Side ...
East Side is Metra territory, as the nearest Chicago Transit Authority train station is the 95th/Dan Ryan terminal on the Red Line, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the neighborhood. Residents utilize 93rd Street station on the Metra Electric District's South Chicago branch and Hegewisch station on the South Shore Line .
Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd. It is home to the DuSable Museum of African American History.
The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.It is one mile long by 220 yards wide and extends along 59th and 60th streets, joining Washington Park at its west end and Jackson Park at its east end.
Today, Chicago is going through a massive skyscraper building boom, with projects like 55 East Erie (the tallest residential building in the U.S. outside New York City) and Trump International Hotel (completed in August 2008, it is the second tallest in Chicago and the tallest building built in the U.S. for nearly three decades) breaking ground ...
The Near South Side is a community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, just south of the downtown central business district, the Loop.The Near South Side's boundaries [3] are as follows: North—Roosevelt Road (1200 S); South—26th Street; West—Chicago River between Roosevelt and 18th Street, Clark Street between 18th Street and Cermak Road, Federal between Cermak Road and the ...
The South Chicago neighborhood does, however, contain 4 newly rebuilt Metra Electric Line, South Chicago Branch stations: Cheltenham and East 79th Street, East 83rd Street, 87th Street, and 93rd Street/South Chicago, which terminates in the heart of the neighborhood's business district along South Baltimore Avenue, and is the community's most ...
Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.It is also the 68th of the 77 community areas in the city.At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approximately 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), [2] but the neighborhood's population has since dropped dramatically.