Armour Square
Armour Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the city's South Side. It includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.- Type: Suburb with 13,900 residents
- Description: community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Armour Square, Chicago” and “Community Area 34”
- Neighbors: Near South and Pilsen
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church and Rate Field.
St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church
Church
St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church is a historic church that belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. It is located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the city's South Side. The church performs services in both Croatian and English.
Rate Field
Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.
Chess Records
Museum
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridgeport and Bridgeport-Chinatown.
Bridgeport
Suburb
Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the South Branch of the Chicago River, on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.
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
Suburb
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douglas is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the South Side of Chicago. The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street, south to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line, along…
Armour Square
- Categories: community area in Chicago, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.84023° or 41° 50′ 25″ northLongitude
-87.63299° or 87° 37′ 59″ westPopulation
13,900Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)Named after
Philip Danforth ArmourOpen location code
86HJR9R8+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 153679058OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
Discover Armour Square from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Armour Square” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “阿莫尔广场”
- French: “Armour Square”
- Japanese: “アーマー・スクウェア”
- Japanese: “アーマー・スクエア”
- Portuguese: “Armour Square”
- Serbian: “Armor Skver (Čikago)”
- Serbian: “Armor Skver”
- Slovenian: “Armour Square”
- Turkish: “Armour Square”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Commons and South Branch Addition.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Santa Lucia Catholic Church and Santa Maria Roman Catholic Church.
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