Oakland
Oakland, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the Oakland area was developed between 1872 and 1905.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 6,800 residents
- Description: community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Oakland, Chicago”
Places of Interest
Highlights include First Church of Christ, Scientist and The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument.
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1897, is a historic Neo-Classical-style church located at 4017 S. Drexel Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois.
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument
Monument
Photo: Historyfar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument is a bronze and marble public sculpture by artist Richard Hunt. Located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, the sculpture takes its name from a quote by civil rights activist and investigative journalist Ida B.
43rd station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
43rd is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority'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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and North Kenwood District.
Bronzeville
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of African-American History 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.
North Kenwood District
Neighborhood
The North Kenwood District is a historic district within the Kenwood community area of South Side, Chicago, Illinois.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Boulevard on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
Oakland
- Categories: community area in Chicago, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.82361° or 41° 49′ 25″ northLongitude
-87.60564° or 87° 36′ 20″ westPopulation
6,800Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)Open location code
86HJR9FV+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 153476312OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
4904472Wikidata ID
Q3347847
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Oakland” goes by many names.
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