Poplar Park
Poplar Park is a park in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on South Prairie Avenue. Poplar Park is situated nearby to the metro station Indiana station, as well as near Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church Of Christ.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Indiana station and South Side Community Art Center.
Indiana station
Metro station
Photo: zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Indiana is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in Chicago, Illinois. The station serves the Green Line and the Grand Boulevard neighborhood. Indiana station is situated 490 feet northwest of Poplar Park.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
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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 1,600 feet northwest of Poplar Park.
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 northwest of Poplar Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Grand Boulevard.
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.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Boulevard is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
Fuller Park
Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Fuller Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the Loop. It is named for a small park also known as Fuller Park 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.
Poplar Park
- Type: Park
- Address: 4044 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.82063° or 41° 49′ 14″ northLongitude
-87.62038° or 87° 37′ 13″ westOperator
Chicago Park DistrictNamed after
PopulusOpen location code
86HJR9CH+7ROpenStreetMap ID
way 186758551OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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