South Water Market

South Water Market is a historic produce market in the neighborhood of , . Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jane Addams Hull House and Halsted Street station.

Museum
Photo: Hied5, Public domain.
Hull House was a settlement house in , , that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. is situated 4,000 feet northeast of South Water Market.

Railway station
Halsted Street, also known as Halsted Street/UIC, is a station on 's BNSF Line, located in Chicago, Illinois. The station is 1.8 miles away from , the eastern terminus of the BNSF Line. is situated 1,900 feet east of South Water Market.

Church
is a Catholic church in , Illinois. It is the second-oldest such church in the city and one of the few structures that survived the Great Chicago Fire. is situated 2,000 feet north of South Water Market.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Italy and Pilsen.

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.

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.

Locality
The is a major freeway interchange near , Illinois. It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways, and Ida B.

South Water Market

Latitude
41.86198° or 41° 51′ 43″ north
Longitude
-87.65394° or 87° 39′ 14″ west
Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)
Open location code
86HJV86W+QC
Geo­Names ID
4912053
Wiki­data ID
Q23461967
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