47th

47th is a railway stop in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. 47th is situated nearby to Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, as well as near the park South Side Sanctuary.

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 850 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 740 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 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.

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

41.80955° or 41° 48′ 34″ north

Longitude

-87.61885° or 87° 37′ 8″ west

Operator

Chicago Transit Authority

Network

CTA

Open location code

86HJR95J+RF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1283483516

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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