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 neighborhood of , .
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  • Type: Industrial building
  • Description: decommissioned electric power generating plant
  • Also known as: “Fisk kraftverk”
  • Address: 1111 West Cermak Road, Chicago, IL 60608

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Halsted station and Thalia Hall.

Metro station
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is an station on the Orange Line, located near the intersection of Halsted Street and Archer Avenue in the neighborhood of Chicago. is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Fisk Generating Station.

Theater building
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. is situated 3,100 feet north of Fisk Generating Station.

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 , , at 2859 South Throop St. It is a prime example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches in both its opulence and grand scale. is situated 2,600 feet south of Fisk Generating Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilsen and Bridgeport.

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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.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the of the , 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.

Photo: Pattie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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

Latitude
41.84949° or 41° 50′ 58″ north
Longitude
-87.65378° or 87° 39′ 14″ west
Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)
Levels
6
Open location code
86HJR8XW+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210224418
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­industrial
Geo­Names ID
7149450
Wiki­data 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 kullkraftverk”
  • Norwegian: “Fisk kullkraftverk”

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