Pilsen

Pilsen is a suburb in , , and has about 33,800 residents. Pilsen is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Benito Juarez Community Academy and National Museum of Mexican Art.

School
, commonly known as Juarez High School and abbreviated as BJCA, is a public four-year high school in the Pilsen neighborhood on the west side of , , United States.

Museum
Photo: Nutmegger, Public domain.
The is a museum featuring and Chicano art and culture. It is located in Harrison Park in the neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Church
Photo: Joe Jeanette Archie, CC BY 2.0.
St. Adalbert Church is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The church is located on 17th Street between Paulina Street and Ashland Avenue in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilsen and Illinois Medical District.

Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Only a few minutes from the center of by train, is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood. Marked by riches in art and historic architecture and occupied by a community that's fiercely proud of where they live, this neighborhood is at once distinctly Chicagoan and something entirely unique.

Neighborhood
Photo: Hied5, CC BY 3.0.
The is a special-use zoning district two miles west of in , . The consists of 560 acres of medical research facilities, labs, a biotechnology business incubator, a raw development area, four major hospitals, two medical universities, and more than 40 health care related facilities.

Quarter
, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the of , Illinois. The current boundaries of are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to the south.

Pilsen

Latitude
41.85257° or 41° 51′ 9″ north
Longitude
-87.66594° or 87° 39′ 57″ west
Population
33,800
Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)
Open location code
86HJV83M+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153647275
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4900611
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In Other Languages

From French to Russian—“Pilsen” goes by many names.

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