Near West Side

The Near West Side of has two of the city's premiere culinary strips, Little Italy and Greektown, and basketball legend Michael Jordan's old stomping grounds with the Chicago Bulls.
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  • Type: Suburb with 67,900 residents
  • Description: community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Chicago/Near West Side”, “Community Area 28”, “Near West Side (Chicago)”, “Near West Side, Chicago”, and “Nearwest Side”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include United Center and Rush University Medical Center.

Stadium
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is an indoor arena on the Near West Side of , Illinois. It is home to the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.

Hospital
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, abbreviated as Rush, is an academic medical center in the neighborhood of , Illinois, United States.

Hospital
The is a public hospital in , Illinois, United States. It is part of Cook County Health, along with and several related centers, which provides public primary, specialty, and tertiary healthcare services to residents of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilsen and Ukrainian Village.

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Only a few minutes from the center of by train, is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood. Marked by riches in art and historic architecture and occupied by a community that's fiercely proud of where they live, this neighborhood is at once distinctly Chicagoan and something entirely unique.

Neighborhood
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is a 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.

Quarter
, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of , Illinois. The current boundaries of are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to the south.

Near West Side

Latitude
41.88007° or 41° 52′ 48″ north
Longitude
-87.66676° or 87° 40′ 0″ west
Population
67,900
Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)
Open location code
86HJV8JM+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153808275
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4903364
Wiki­data ID
Q3337593
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Near West Side” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “芝加哥近西區”
  • Chinese: “近西区”
  • Chinese: “近西區 (芝加哥)”
  • Chinese: “近西區”
  • French: “Near West Side”
  • Hebrew: “ניר ווסט סייד”
  • Hebrew: “ניר וסט סייד”
  • Serbian: “Bliska zapadna strana (Čikago)”
  • Serbian: “Bliska zapadna strana”
  • Serbian: “Nir Vest Sajd (Čikago)”
  • Spanish: “Near West Side”
  • Turkish: “Near West Side”

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