Old Main
Old Main is a historic building on the campus of North Park University in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1893–94, it is the oldest building at the university, which was known as Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant College at the time.Photo: Rputera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: building of North Park University, Chicago
- Address: 3225 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Albany Park Library and Von Steuben Metropolitan High School.
Albany Park Library
Library
Photo: Daniel X. O’Neil, CC BY 2.0.
Albany Park Library is a branch of the Chicago Public Library located at 3401 W. Foster Ave. in the North Park neighborhood of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Albany Park Library is situated 1,100 feet west of Old Main.
Von Steuben Metropolitan High School
School
Photo: Vidal 1077, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Von Steuben Metropolitan High School is a public four-year high school that provides magnet college prep program with regular and honors courses and scholars program offering only honors and Advanced Placement classes, located on the border of the North Park and Albany Park neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Von Steuben Metropolitan High School is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Old Main.
Edison Regional Gifted Center
School
The Edison Regional Gifted Center is located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Edison RGC offers an accelerated and enriched program to gifted students in kindergarten through eighth grades. Edison Regional Gifted Center is situated 1,500 feet south of Old Main.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Albany Park and North Lincoln.
Albany Park
Suburb
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Albany Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the Northwest Side of Chicago with the North Branch of the Chicago River forming its east and north boundaries, it includes the ethnically diverse Albany Park neighborhood, with one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents of any Chicago neighborhood.
North Lincoln
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY 2.0.
North Lincoln is a collection of neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago through which Lincoln Avenue wanders, remembering treasures and curiosities of the last century in Chicago life, moving along, and forgetting them all over again.
North Park
Suburb
Photo: Dersh, Public domain.
North Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is bordered by the North Shore Channel on the east, the Chicago River's North Branch and Foster Avenue on the south, it reaches as far as Cicero Avenue on the west and Devon Avenue on the north.
Old Main
- Categories: building and education
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.97525° or 41° 58′ 31″ northLongitude
-87.70989° or 87° 42′ 36″ westOpen location code
86HJX7GR+42OpenStreetMap ID
way 164021906OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityWikidata ID
Q85790499
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