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Grand Boulevard

Grand Boulevard on the of , , is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • Type: Suburb with 24,600 residents
  • Description: community area of Chicago
  • Also known as: “Grand Boulevard, Chicago”

Places of Interest

Highlights include 43rd station and Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church.

Railway station
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43rd is a station on the 's 'L' system in the Grand Boulevard community area in Chicago, Illinois, on the Green Line at 314 E 43rd Street, three blocks east of State Street.

Church
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The is a historic church at 4501 S. Vincennes Avenue in the Grand Boulevard community area of , . Built in 1899, the building was originally a synagogue for the Isaiah Temple congregation.

Theater building
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is a performance facility located in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened in August 2004, ten years after initial groundbreaking.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Fuller Park.

Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of 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.

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.

Suburb
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, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, , is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the area was developed between 1872 and 1905.

Grand Boulevard

Latitude
41.81392° or 41° 48′ 50″ north
Longitude
-87.61727° or 87° 37′ 2″ west
Population
24,600
Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)
Open location code
86HJR97M+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153566978
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4894320
Wiki­data ID
Q3113533
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Grand Boulevard” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “大林蔭路”
  • French: “Grand Boulevard”
  • Persian: “بلوار بزرگ، شیکاگو”
  • Persian: “گرند بولوار”
  • Slovenian: “Grand Boulevard”
  • Turkish: “Grand Boulevard”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grand Boulevard”. Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.