Pilsen
Pilsen is a suburb in Chicago, Cook, Illinois and has about 33,800 residents. Pilsen is situated nearby to the neighborhood Roosevelt Square, as well as near Heart of Chicago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benito Juarez Community Academy and National Museum of Mexican Art.
Benito Juarez Community Academy
School
Benito Juarez Community Academy, is a public four-year high school in the Pilsen neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Juarez is named for Mexican president Benito Pablo Juárez García.
National Museum of Mexican Art
Museum
Photo: Nutmegger, Public domain.
The National Museum of Mexican Art is a museum featuring Mexican and Chicano art and culture. It is located in Harrison Park in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Saint Adalbert Church
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.
Pilsen
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, Pilsen 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.
Illinois Medical District
Neighborhood
The Illinois Medical District is a special-use zoning district two miles west of the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. The Illinois Medical District 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.
Little Italy
Quarter
Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy 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
- Type: Suburb with 33,800 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.85257° or 41° 51′ 9″ northLongitude
-87.66594° or 87° 39′ 57″ westPopulation
33,800Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)Open location code
86HJV83M+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 153647275OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
4900611
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In Other Languages
From French to German—“Pilsen” goes by many names.
- French: “Lower West Side”
- German: “Lower West Side”
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