Fisk Generating Station
The Fisk Generating Station, also known as Fisk Street Generating Station or Fisk Station is an inactive medium-size, coal-fired electric generating station located at 1111 West Cermak Road in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Photo: Theodore Kloba, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: decommissioned electric power generating plant
- Address: 1111 West Cermak Road, Chicago, IL 60608
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Halsted station and Thalia Hall.
Halsted station
Metro station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Halsted station is an "L" station on the CTA Orange Line, located near the intersection of Halsted Street and Archer Avenue in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. Halsted station is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Fisk Generating Station.
Thalia Hall
Theater building
Thalia Hall is a historic building in Pilsen, Chicago, which is a mixed-use music, retail, and bar/restaurant space. It was designated as a Chicago Landmark on October 25, 1989. Thalia Hall is situated 3,100 feet north of Fisk Generating Station.
St. Barbara Church
Church
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Barbara's in Chicago - historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located in Chicago, Illinois, at 2859 South Throop St. It is a prime example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches in both its opulence and grand scale. St. Barbara Church is situated 2,600 feet south of Fisk Generating Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pilsen and Bridgeport.
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.
Bridgeport
Suburb
Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the South Branch of the Chicago River, on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Bridgeport-Chinatown
Photo: Pattie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridgeport-Chinatown is the South Side at its most dynamic, as the old South Side Irish neighborhood of the Daleys increasingly blends with the old Chinese immigrant community to the north.
Fisk Generating Station
- Categories: coal-fired power station, oil-fired power station, gas turbine power station, building, and industry
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.84949° or 41° 50′ 58″ northLongitude
-87.65378° or 87° 39′ 14″ westElevation
587 feet (179 metres)Levels
6Open location code
86HJR8XW+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 210224418OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialGeoNames ID
7149450Wikidata ID
Q5455171
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Bokmål—“Fisk Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “菲斯克發電站”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fisk kraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fisk kullkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Fisk kullkraftverk”
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