Bronzeville
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: historic district in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as: “Black Metropolis District”, “Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District”, and “Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 43rd station and South Side Community Art Center.
43rd station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
43rd is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system in the Grand Boulevard community area in Chicago, Illinois, on the Green Line at 314 E 43rd Street, three blocks east of State Street.
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.
Chicago Bee Building
Heritage site
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side. It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Douglas.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Boulevard on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
Douglas
Suburb
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.
Oakland
Suburb
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oakland, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the Oakland area was developed between 1872 and 1905.
Bronzeville
- Categories: neighborhood, historic district, and locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.82385° or 41° 49′ 26″ northLongitude
-87.61698° or 87° 37′ 1″ westElevation
594 feet (181 metres)Open location code
86HJR9FM+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153690988OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Bronzeville” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bronzeville”
- French: “Bronzeville”
- German: “Bronzeville”
- Hebrew: “שיקגו/ברונזוויל”
- Japanese: “ブロンズビル地区”
- Turkish: “Bronzeville”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bronzeville”. Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.