47th
47th is a railway stop in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. 47th is situated nearby to Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, as well as near South Side Sanctuary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include 47th station and Harold Washington Cultural Center.
47th station
Metro station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
47th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's "L" system, located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line.
Harold Washington Cultural Center
Theater building
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Harold Washington Cultural Center is a performance facility located in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened in August 2004, ten years after initial groundbreaking. Harold Washington Cultural Center is situated 830 feet east of 47th.
Robert S. Abbott House
House
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The Robert S. Abbott House is a historic house in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1900, it was the home of Robert S. Abbott, founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the most-circulated African-American newspaper in the nation, from 1926 up until his death in 1940. Robert S. Abbott House is situated 630 feet southeast of 47th.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Fuller Park.
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.
Fuller Park
Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Fuller Park is the 37th of Chicago's 77 community areas. 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.
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.
47th
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.80914° or 41° 48′ 33″ northLongitude
-87.61884° or 87° 37′ 8″ westOperator
Chicago Transit AuthorityNetwork
CTAOpen location code
86HJR95J+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1283483516OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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