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Wendell Phillips Academy High School

Wendell Phillips Academy High School is a public 4–year high school located in the neighborhood on the south side of , United States.
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  • Type: School
  • Description: public high school in Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Also known as: “Phillips Academy”, “Phillips Academy High School”, “Phillips High School”, “Wendell Phillips Academy”, “Wendell Phillips High”, and “Wendell Phillips High School”
  • Address: 244 East Pershing Road, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include South Side Community Art Center and Rate Field.

Arts center
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The is a community art center in that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in . is situated 790 feet west of Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a baseball on the of , Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. is situated 4,200 feet northwest of Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

Library
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The is a historic building on Chicago's . It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Douglas.

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, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of 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.

Suburb
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, on the of , is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. , Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.

Suburb
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, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, , is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the area was developed between 1872 and 1905.

Wendell Phillips Academy High School

Latitude
41.82472° or 41° 49′ 29″ north
Longitude
-87.61982° or 87° 37′ 11″ west
Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)
Operator
Chicago Public Schools
Named after
Wendell Phillips
Open location code
86HJR9FJ+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1042100428
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Geo­Names ID
4905872
Wiki­data ID
Q7982462
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From Armenian to Swedish—“Wendell Phillips Academy High School” goes by many names.

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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 “Wendell Phillips Academy High School”. Photo: Steven Kevil, Public domain.