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Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square on the North Side of , Illinois, is one of the city's 77 community areas. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods, as well as Lincoln Square itself.
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  • Type: Suburb with 40,500 residents
  • Description: Lincoln Square, Chicago
  • Also known as: “Lincoln Square, Chicago” and “Ravenswood”

Places of Interest

Highlights include DANK Haus German American Cultural Center and The Chicago Lincoln.

Community center
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is a cultural organization located in the Lincoln Square, Chicago community area. Founded in in 1959, it seeks to preserve and promote German and German American culture.

Work of art
Photo: I Jethrobot, Public domain.
is a statue of a standing, beardless Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Square, Chicago. The statue was designed by Lloyd Ostendorf for a city contest and modeled by sculptor Avard Fairbanks. The statue was erected on October 16, 1956.

Movie theater
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The , originally known as the Pershing Theater, is a first run located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of . Built in 1918, the theater has operated in different capacities in its history, showing silent films, German-language films, and various forms of stage performance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ravenswood and Ravenswood Manor Historic District.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood located on the North Side of the city of , Illinois. Lacking designation as one of Chicago's 77 well-defined community areas, it is mostly situated in the Lincoln Square community area, with the portion east of Avenue and the Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific North Line railroad tracks being situated in the community area.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district in the community area of North Side, Chicago, . It is bordered by the on the East, and by the alley south of Lawrence Avenue on the North, Sacramento Avenue on the West, and the alley North of Montrose Avenue on the south.

Suburb
is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located in the city's North Side. is bordered on the north by Montrose Avenue, on the south by Diversey Parkway, on the west by the and on the east by Ravenswood Avenue; it includes the neighborhoods of Northcenter, Roscoe Village, St.

Lincoln Square

Latitude
41.96859° or 41° 58′ 7″ north
Longitude
-87.68851° or 87° 41′ 19″ west
Population
40,500
Elevation
607 feet (185 metres)
Named after
Abraham Lincoln
Open location code
86HJX896+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8416649459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4899966
Wiki­data ID
Q598857
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Slovenian—“Lincoln Square” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “林肯廣場”
  • French: “Lincoln Square”
  • German: “Lincoln Square”
  • Japanese: “リンカーン・スクウェア”
  • Slovenian: “Lincoln Square”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Giddings Plaza Fountain and Giddings Plaza.

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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 “Lincoln Square”. Photo: Erstwhile.Human, CC BY-SA 2.0.