Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston

Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston is a memorial in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston is situated nearby to the suburb Douglas, as well as near Hartzell United Methodist Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pilgrim Baptist Church and Rate Field.

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Heritage site

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Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church at 3301 South Indiana Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Pilgrim Baptist Church is situated 1,200 feet west of Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston.

Rate Field

Stadium

Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Rate Field is situated 1 mile west of Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston.

Olivet Baptist Church

Church

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Olivet Baptist Church is a church located in Chicago, Illinois. The congregation first formed in 1861 through the merger of two African-American congregations. Olivet Baptist Church is situated 1,300 feet north of Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Bronzeville.

Douglas

Suburb

Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Douglas is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the South Side of Chicago. The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street, south to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line, along…

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.

Armour Square

Suburb

Photo: lordcolus, CC BY 2.0.

Armour Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the city's South Side. It includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.

Jessie ‘Ma’ Houston

Type: Memorial
Category: historic site
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.83458° or 41° 50′ 5″ north

Longitude

-87.61688° or 87° 37′ 1″ west

Open location code

86HJR9MM+R6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12955354636

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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