Birch Park

Birch Park is a park in , , which is located on East 45th Street. Birch Park is situated nearby to , as well as near the residential building .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church and Harold Washington Cultural Center.

Church
The is a historic church at 4501 S. Vincennes Avenue in the community area of , . Built in 1899, the building was originally a synagogue for the Isaiah Temple congregation. is situated 460 feet east of Birch Park.

Theater building
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 1,300 feet south of Birch Park.

Residential building
The is an historic apartment building at 4536–4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in , . It was built in 1920, and one of its units was from 1929 to 1951 home to Oscar Stanton De Priest, the first African-American to be elected to the United States Congress from a northern state. is situated 630 feet southwest of Birch Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Bronzeville.

Suburb
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.

, 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.

Neighborhood
The is a historic district within the community area of , .

Birch Park

Latitude
41.81279° or 41° 48′ 46″ north
Longitude
-87.61526° or 87° 36′ 55″ west
Named after
Betula
Open location code
86HJR97M+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 186758549
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
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