47th station

47th is a station on the 's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the neighborhood.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Chicago ‘L’ station
  • Also known as: “47th”
  • Address: 220 West 47th Street, Chicago, IL 60609
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fuller Park and Al Sadiq Mosque.

Park
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is a public park at 331 W. 45th Street in the in , , United States. The park was one of several built by the South Park Commission in the early 20th century to provide parks in dense and poor South Side Chicago neighborhoods which lacked them. is situated 1,100 feet west of 47th station.

Mosque
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The was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of . The is one of 's earliest built and the oldest standing mosque in the country today. is situated 2,000 feet northeast of 47th station.

Theater building
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is a performance facility located in the historic 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. is situated 4,200 feet east of 47th station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fuller Park and Grand Boulevard.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States. 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.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States. It is located on the of Chicago. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.

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, 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.

47th station

Latitude
41.81039° or 41° 48′ 37″ north
Longitude
-87.63102° or 87° 37′ 52″ west
Operator
Chicago Transit Authority
Network
Chicago Transit Authority
Open location code
86HJR969+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4139536496
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q2816905
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“47th station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “47街站”
  • Chinese: “第47站”
  • Dutch: “47th”
  • French: “47ème”
  • French: “47th”
  • Russian: “47-я улица”
  • Spanish: “47th”
  • Ukrainian: “47-ма станція”
  • Urdu: “فورٹی سیونتھ اسٹیشن (سی ٹی اے ریڈ لائن)”
  • Urdu: “فورٹی سیونتھ اسٹیشن”

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