Ida B. Wells Homes
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.Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ida B. Wells-Barnett House and Rate Field.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
House
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930. It is located at 3624 S. Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is situated 510 feet northwest of Ida B. Wells Homes.
Rate Field
Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, 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. Rate Field is situated 1 mile west of Ida B. Wells Homes.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. South Side Community Art Center is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Ida B. Wells Homes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Douglas.
Bronzeville
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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…
Oakland
Suburb
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Ida B. Wells Homes
- Type: Memorial
- Description: former public housing development in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Categories: public housing and historic site
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.82739° or 41° 49′ 39″ northLongitude
-87.6167° or 87° 37′ 0″ westOpen location code
86HJR9GM+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 9584059754OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q5986920
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“Ida B. Wells Homes” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “アイダ・B・ウェルズ・ホーム”
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