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Bridgeport

Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the of the , 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.
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  • Type: Suburb with 33,700 residents
  • Description: community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Bridgeport (Chicago)”, “Bridgeport, Chicago”, “Community Area 60”, and “Hardscrabble”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rate Field and Ramova Theater.

Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a baseball on the of , 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.

Theater building
Photo: Mindaugas Danys, CC BY 2.0.
The is a historic at 3508-3518 South Halsted Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of , . Businessman Jokūbas Maskoliūnas, one of the many Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Bridgeport in the early twentieth century, built the theater in 1929.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Mary of Perpetual Help - historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of , . It is a prime example of the so-called Polish Cathedral style of churches in both its opulence and grand scale.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Armour Square and Bridgeport-Chinatown.

Suburb
Photo: lordcolus, CC BY 2.0.
is a neighborhood on the city's , as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes and the CHA housing project.

Photo: Pattie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.

Suburb
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is the 37th of 's 77 community areas. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.

Bridgeport

Latitude
41.83531° or 41° 50′ 7″ north
Longitude
-87.6462° or 87° 38′ 46″ west
Population
33,700
Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)
Open location code
86HJR9P3+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153614530
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4885565
Wiki­data ID
Q2925167
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“Bridgeport” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “布里奇波特（芝加哥）”
  • Chinese: “布里奇波特”
  • French: “Bridgeport”
  • Japanese: “ブリッジウォーター”
  • Japanese: “ブリッジポート”
  • Lithuanian: “Bridžportas (Čikaga)”
  • Lithuanian: “Bridžportas”
  • Persian: “بریجپورت (شیکاگو)”
  • Persian: “بریجپورت”
  • Serbian: “Bridžport (Čikago)”
  • Serbian: “Bridžport”
  • Spanish: “Bridgeport”
  • Turkish: “Bridgeport”
  • Urdu: “برج پورٹ، شکاگو”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Chicago Police Department 9th District and Richard J. Daley Branch.

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