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K-Town Historic District

The K-Town Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in the community area in Chicago, Illinois.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kostner station and Hawthorne Works.

Metro station
Kostner, formerly known as Kildare, is an station on the 's Pink Line. It is located in the neighborhood of the community area, often just referred to as Lawndale.

Historic building
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The was a large factory complex of the Western Electric Company in . In addition to industrial plants, several on-site community amenities were provided to workers.

Metro station
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Pulaski is an 'L' station on the 's Pink Line, located in the neighborhood. Pulaski opened on June 16, 1902, as part of the Douglas Park branch of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Lawndale and Cicero.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas of the city of , located on its West Side. The area contains the K-Town Historic District, the Foundation for Homan Square, the Homan Square interrogation facility, and the greatest concentration of greystones in the city.

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is a town of 81,000 people in the area, just west of the city limits. It became famous when gangster Al Capone moved here to escape from the Chicago Police in the early 1920s.

Suburb
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is a community area on the West Side of , . Over 80% of the residents are of Mexican descent and the community is home to the largest foreign-born Mexican population in Chicago.

K-Town Historic District

Latitude
41.8531° or 41° 51′ 11″ north
Longitude
-87.73009° or 87° 43′ 48″ west
Open location code
86HJV739+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11961643899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q55615495
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include New Testament Missionary Baptist Church and Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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