Armour Square Park

Armour Square Park, also known as Armour Square or Park No. 3, is a park in Chicago, Illinois featuring Beaux Arts architecture, designed by D.H. Burnham and the Olmsted Brothers.

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Type: Park
Description: park in Illinois, United States of America, United States of America
Also known as: “Armour Park”
Address: 3309 South Shields Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rate Field and Sox–35th station.

Rate Field

Stadium

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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.

Sox–35th station

Railway station

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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. The station opened on September 28, 1969, along with the other eight stations on the Dan Ryan branch.

Comiskey Park

Memorial

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Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-south side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Armour Square and Bridgeport.

Armour Square

Suburb

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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.

Bridgeport

Suburb

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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.

Douglas

Suburb

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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…