Fifty Acres

Fifty Acres is a locality in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Fifty Acres is situated nearby to the locality William Green Homes, as well as near Cabrini Addition.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Goose Island and IO Theater.

Goose Island

Island

Goose Island is a 160-acre artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles long and 0.5 miles across at its widest point.

IO Theater

Theater building

iO, or iO Chicago, is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago. The theater teaches and hosts performances of improvisational comedy. It was founded in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Theater building

Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Immaculate Conception grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cabrini–Green Homes and Old Town.

Cabrini–Green Homes

Neighborhood

Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.

Cabrini–Green Homes are a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Frances Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were south of Division Street, bordered by Larrabee Street to the west, Orleans Street to the east and Chicago Avenue to the south, with the William Green Homes to the northwest.

Old Town

Quarter

Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. It contains many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.

Near North

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

The Near North is the shop-and-awe center of Chicago. It's bounded by North Avenue to the north, the Chicago River to the west and south, and Lake Michigan to the east.

Fifty Acres

Type: Locality
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.90364° or 41° 54′ 13″ north

Longitude

-87.64839° or 87° 38′ 54″ west

Elevation

587 feet (179 metres)

Open location code

86HJW932+FJ

GeoNames ID

4891936

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