47th station

47th is a station on the 's , located in the community area of Chicago, Illinois and serving the Green Line.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: train station in Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Also known as: “47th”
  • Address: 314 East 47th Street, Chicago, IL 60653
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harold Washington Cultural Center and Robert S. Abbott House.

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 850 feet east of 47th station.

House
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The is a historic house in the community area of Chicago, . Built in 1900, it was the home of Robert S. Abbott, founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the most-circulated African-American newspaper in the nation, from 1926 up until his death in 1940. is situated 690 feet southeast 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 2,200 feet northwest of 47th station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Fuller Park.

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.

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.

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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
41.80938° or 41° 48′ 34″ north
Longitude
-87.61886° or 87° 37′ 8″ west
Operator
Chicago Transit Authority
Network
Chicago Transit Authority
Open location code
86HJR95J+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 706934717
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q2816904
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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 گرین لائن)”
  • Urdu: “فورٹی سیونتھ اسٹیشن”

Places with the Same Name

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Highlights include Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church and South Side Sanctuary.

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