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Chicago Bee Branch

Chicago Bee Branch is a library in , , which is located on South State Street. Chicago Bee Branch is situated nearby to the heritage site , as well as near the apartment building .
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday and Wednesday: noon—8:00 PM
    Tuesday and Thursday: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
    Friday—Saturday: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Sunday: 1:00 PM—5:00 PM
  • Email: chicagobee@chipublib.org
  • Type: Library
  • Description: public library in Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Also known as: “Chicago Bee Branch Library”
  • Address: 3647 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chicago Bee Building and Rate Field.

Heritage site
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic building on Chicago's . It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago.

Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a baseball on the of , 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. is situated 2,100 feet west of Chicago Bee Branch.

Apartment building
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Overton Hygienic Company, was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton. It was one of the United States's largest producers of African-American cosmetics. is situated 370 feet north of Chicago Bee Branch.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Douglas.

Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of 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.

Suburb
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, on the of , is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. , Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.

Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
is the 37th of 's 77 community areas. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as 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.

Chicago Bee Branch

Latitude
41.82798° or 41° 49′ 41″ north
Longitude
-87.62622° or 87° 37′ 34″ west
Branch
Chicago Bee
Operator
Chicago Public Library
Open location code
86HJR9HF+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13370941465
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Wiki­data ID
Q69964601
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