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Pilsen

Only a few minutes from the center of 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.
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  • Type: Quarter with 35,800 residents
  • Description: community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Community Area 31”, “Heart of Chicago”, “Lower West Side”, “Lower West Side, Chicago”, and “Lower West Side, Chicago, IL”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Mexican Art and Addams Park.

Museum
Photo: Nutmegger, Public domain.
The is a museum featuring and Chicano art and culture. It is located in Harrison Park in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, .

Park
is a public park in named after Jane Addams. It is located in in the Near West Side Community Area. In June 2017 it was announced that Exelon planned to build a $20 million, 100,000 sq-ft multi-purpose indoor facility in the park.

Church
Photo: Joe Jeanette Archie, CC BY 2.0.
St. Adalbert Church is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The church is located on 17th Street between Paulina Street and Ashland Avenue in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridgeport-Chinatown and Near West Side.

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.

Photo: pgoyette, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The of has two of the city's premiere culinary strips, Little Italy and Greektown, and basketball legend Michael Jordan's old stomping grounds with the Chicago Bulls.

Quarter
, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the of Chicago, 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.

Pilsen

Latitude
41.85704° or 41° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
-87.66188° or 87° 39′ 43″ west
Population
35,800
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
Named after
Plzeň
Open location code
86HJV84Q+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153715851
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
4905971
Wiki­data ID
Q3264397
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Pilsen” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “下西區”
  • Esperanto: “Malsupra Okcidenta Flanko”
  • French: “Lower West Side”
  • German: “Lower West Side”
  • German: “Pilsen”
  • Hebrew: “שיקגו/פילזן”
  • Italian: “Lower West Side”
  • Japanese: “ロウアー・ウェスト・サイド (シカゴ)”
  • Serbian: “Louer Vest Sajd (Čikago)”
  • Serbian: “Louer Vest Sajd”
  • Serbian: “Niža zapadna strana (Čikago)”
  • Turkish: “Lower West Side”

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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 “Pilsen”. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.