Michigan Avenue
Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid. The northern end of the street is at DuSable Lake Shore Drive on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Gold Coast Historic District.Photo: Dudesleeper, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Road
- Description: major north-south thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Michigan Avenue (Chicago)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ and Indiana station.
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ
Church
Photo: Legimet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ is a Christian house of worship located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The church was the site of Emmett Till's open-casket funeral in 1955. Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ is situated 980 feet northwest of Michigan Avenue.
Indiana station
Metro station
Photo: zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Indiana is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois. The station serves the Green Line and the Grand Boulevard neighborhood. Indiana station is situated 950 feet northeast of Michigan Avenue.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. South Side Community Art Center is situated 1,800 feet north of Michigan Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Grand Boulevard.
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.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Boulevard is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
Fuller Park
Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Fuller Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the Loop. It is named for a small park also known as Fuller Park within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.
Michigan Avenue
- Categories: street, central business district, neighborhood, and transportation
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tamil—“Michigan Avenue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شارع ميشيغن”
- Chinese: “密歇根大街”
- Dutch: “Michigan Avenue”
- French: “avenue Michigan”
- French: “Michigan Avenue (Chicago)”
- French: “Michigan Avenue”
- German: “Michigan Avenue (Chicago, Ill.)”
- German: “Michigan Avenue”
- Japanese: “ミシガン・アベニュー”
- Japanese: “ミシガンアヴェニュー”
- Japanese: “ミシガン通り”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Michigan Avenue”
- Norwegian: “Michigan Avenue”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Michigan Avenue”
- Portuguese: “Michigan Avenue”
- Spanish: “Avenida Michigan”
- Spanish: “Avenida Míchigan”
- Tamil: “மிச்சிகன் அவென்யூ”
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