Damen
Damen is a railway stop in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Damen is situated nearby to the hotel building The Robey, as well as near the office building Flat Iron Building.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Damen station and The Robey.
Damen station
Metro station
Photo: Nico Brussels, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damen is a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", currently serving the O'Hare branch of its Blue Line. Opened on May 6, 1895, as Robey, it is the oldest station on the Blue Line and one of the few surviving stations originally built for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad.
The Robey
Hotel building
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The Robey is a 12-story Art Deco hotel at the corner of North Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, Chicago. It was designed by Perkins, Chatten & Hammond and built between 1928 and 1929.
Wicker Park
Park
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Wicker Park is a 4.03-acre public urban park in the Wicker Park neighborhood of the West Town community and West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after Charles G. Wicker and Joel H. Wicker.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wicker Park and West Town.
Wicker Park
Photo: Victorgrigas, Public domain.
Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago. This article also includes the sly, enjoyable Ukrainian Village, immediately south, and pieces of the greater West Town area.
West Town
Suburb
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West Town is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the northwest of the Loop. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown, along Western Avenue, which was then the city's western boundary.
Ukrainian Village
Neighborhood
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Ukrainian Village is a Chicago neighborhood located on the near west side of Chicago. Its boundaries are Division Street to the north, Grand Avenue to the south, Western Avenue to the west, and Damen Avenue to the east.
Damen
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.91014° or 41° 54′ 37″ northLongitude
-87.67805° or 87° 40′ 41″ westOperator
Chicago Transit AuthorityNetwork
CTAOpen location code
86HJW86C+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 2090176575OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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