Bronzeville
Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Gwendolyn Brooks published poetry in the Chicago Defender, Andrew Rube Foster created Negro League Baseball, and Louis Armstrong kept his trumpet singing at the Sunset Cafe to keep Al Capone off his back.Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Notable Places in the Area
Sox–35th station
Railway station
Sox–35th is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is situated at 142 West 35th Street in the Armour Square neighborhood.
Chicago Bee Building
Library
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts centre
Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois.
Localities in the Area
Bridgeport-Chinatown
Photo: Pattie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridgeport-Chinatown is the South Side at its most dynamic, as the old South Side Irish neighborhood of the Daleys increasingly blends with the old Chinese immigrant community to the north.
Douglas
Quarter
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas.
Armour Square
Quarter
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.
Bronzeville
- Type: Neighbourhood
- Description: historic district in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Categories: historic district and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.83127° or 41° 49' 53" northLongitude
-87.62655° or 87° 37' 36" westElevation
181 metres (594 feet)Open Location Code
86HJR9JF+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 153690988OpenStreetMap Feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4885675Wikidata ID
Q4823292Bronzeville Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Dutch: Bronzeville
- English: Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District
- English: Black Metropolis District
- English: Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District
- French: Bronzeville
- German: Bronzeville
- Hebrew: שיקגו/ברונזוויל
- Japanese: ブロンズビル地区
- Turkish: Bronzeville
Other Places Named Bronzeville
Localities in the Area
- South CommonsNeighbourhood
- Fuller ParkQuarter
- OaklandQuarter
- Grand BoulevardQuarter
- BridgeportQuarter
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bronzeville. Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.