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  2. South Chicago, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    South Chicago, formerly known as Ainsworth, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. This chevron -shaped community is one of Chicago's 16 lakefront neighborhoods near the southern rim of Lake Michigan 10 miles south of downtown. A working-class neighborhood, it is bordered by East 79th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue ...

  3. Chicago Heights, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.

  4. Park Forest, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The village was originally designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett as a planned community for veterans returning from World War II. [2] As of the 2020 census, the village had a population of 21,687. Park Forest is bordered by Olympia Fields to the north, Chicago Heights to the east, University Park to the south, and Richton Park and Matteson to ...

  5. South Chicago Heights, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    708. FIPS code. 17-70629. Wikimedia Commons. South Chicago Heights, Illinois. Website. www.southchicagoheights.com. South Chicago Heights is a village and a south suburb in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,026 at the 2020 census.

  6. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Community areas in Chicago. A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and ...

  7. Sauk Village, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Neighboring towns include the Illinois communities of Lynwood to the northeast, Ford Heights to the north, Chicago Heights to the northwest, South Chicago Heights to the west, Steger to the southwest, and Crete to the south. The town of Dyer, Indiana, is the nearest community to the east.

  8. South Side Community Art Center - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...

  9. Prairie State College - Wikipedia

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    The 137-acre campus is located at South Halsted Street and Vollmer Road in Chicago Heights, Illinois. The main campus, located south of Vollmer Road, houses administrative offices, classrooms, laboratories, and student services facilities, including the bookstore, the Counseling and Academic Advising Center, the Student Success Center ...