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Kenwood Academy

Kenwood Academy is a comprehensive public four-year high school, with a middle school magnet program for gifted students, located in the neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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  • Type: School
  • Description: High School and Middle School in Chicago, Illinois
  • Also known as: “Kenwood School”
  • Address: 5015 South Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Blackstone Memorial Library and Hyde Park Art Center.

Library
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T. B. is part of the Chicago Public Library System and is named for library benefactor Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. is situated 680 feet northwest of Kenwood Academy.

Arts center
The is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the neighborhood of , . is situated 710 feet east of Kenwood Academy.

Railway station
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51st–53rd Street is a commuter rail station within the City of Chicago serves the Metra Electric Line north to and south to , , and . is situated 1,100 feet southeast of Kenwood Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Indian Village and Kenwood.

Neighborhood
Photo: Monika Bonckute, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the small southeast corner of , a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, to the north, 51st Street to the south, to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west.

Suburb
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, one of 's 77 community areas, is on the shore of on the of the city. Its boundaries are 43rd Street, 51st Street, Cottage Grove Avenue, and the lake.

Photo: Urbanrules, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of 's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…

Kenwood Academy

Latitude
41.80407° or 41° 48′ 15″ north
Longitude
-87.58925° or 87° 35′ 21″ west
Elevation
591 feet (180 metres)
Operator
Chicago Public Schools
Named after
Kenwood, Scotland
Open location code
86HJRC36+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 184864539
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Geo­Names ID
4898402
Wiki­data ID
Q6392506
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Kenwood Academy” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kenwood Academy”
  • French: “Kenwood Academy”
  • Irish: “Acadamh Kenwood”
  • Japanese: “ケンウッド・アカデミー”
  • Swedish: “Kenwood Academy”

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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 “Kenwood Academy”. Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.