enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wabash Avenue YMCA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Avenue_YMCA

    Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. This YMCA facility served as an important social center within the Black Metropolis area, and it also provided housing and job training for African Americans migrating ...

  3. 19 South LaSalle Street - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_South_LaSalle_Street

    19 South LaSalle Street was constructed as the Central YMCA Association Building in 1893, [1] [2] and completed shortly before the Panic of 1893. [1] The structure, designed by William LeBaron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie, was eventually renamed for its address, 19 South LaSalle Street. [3]

  4. Victor F. Lawson House YMCA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_F._Lawson_House_YMCA

    The Victor F. Lawson House is a historic former YMCA building located at 30 W. Chicago Avenue in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The building was built in 1931 for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, which was established in 1858 and had grown considerably during the 1920s.

  5. YMCA Hotel (Chicago, Illinois) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA_Hotel_(Chicago,_Illinois)

    The YMCA Hotel is a historic former hotel located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The hotel, which was designed by Robert C. Berlin and James Gamble Rogers, opened in 1916. The hotel, which was designed by Robert C. Berlin and James Gamble Rogers, opened in 1916.

  6. YWCA USA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YWCA_USA

    YWCA Chicago Club. YWCA Metropolitan Chicago is the oldest and largest women's organization in the region, with a mission to eliminate racism and empower women. For more than 140 years, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago has been committed to serving the evolving needs of women and families. [5] The Monroe Gallery at the YWCA started in 1961.

  7. Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation...

    RTA was created after a referendum in 1974. In 1973, CTA had instituted its first major service cuts, [6] and several suburban bus companies, including Evanston Bus Company and Glenview Bus Company had ceased operations, forcing Evanston to make arrangements with CTA and Wilmette to start a municipal service.

  8. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago

    Although developed by the University of Chicago, they have been used by other universities in the Chicago area, as well as by the city and regional planners. [2] They have contributed to Chicago's reputation as the "city of neighborhoods", and are argued to break up an intimidating city into more manageable pieces. [2]

  9. WJYS - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJYS

    WJYS (channel 62) is an independent television station licensed to Hammond, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. Owned by Millennial Telecommunications, Inc., WJYS maintains studio facilities on South Oak Park Avenue in Tinley Park, Illinois, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.