Oakwood Shores
Oakwood Shores is a neighborhood in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Oakwood Shores is situated nearby to the suburb Oakland, as well as near Douglas.Places of Interest
Highlights include First Church of Christ, Scientist and South Side Community Art Center.
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Church
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The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1897, is a historic Neo-Classical-style church located at 4017 S. Drexel Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
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The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois.
Ida B. Wells Homes
Memorial
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The Ida B. Wells Homes, which also included the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, bordered by 35th Street to the north, Pershing Road to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and Martin Luther King Drive to the west.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oakland and Bronzeville.
Oakland
Suburb
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Oakland is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the Oakland area was developed between 1872 and 1905.
Bronzeville
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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.
Douglas
Suburb
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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…
Oakwood Shores
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.82579° or 41° 49′ 33″ northLongitude
-87.61002° or 87° 36′ 36″ westOpen location code
86HJR9GQ+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 13099765499OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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