Prairie Material

Prairie Material is an industrial building in Cook, Illinois, which is located on South Laflin Street. Prairie Material is situated near Ashland Avenue Bridge, as well as near Loomis Street Bridge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: National Museum of Mexican Art and Benito Juarez Community Academy.

National Museum of Mexican Art

Museum

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The National Museum of Mexican Art is a museum featuring Mexican and Chicano art and culture. It is located in Harrison Park in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. National Museum of Mexican Art is situated 4,200 feet northwest of Prairie Material.

Benito Juarez Community Academy

School

Benito Juarez Community Academy, commonly known as Juarez High School and abbreviated as BJCA, is a public four-year high school in the Pilsen neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Benito Juarez Community Academy is situated 2,400 feet north of Prairie Material.

Ashland station

Metro station

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Ashland is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Orange Line. It is located at the intersection of Ashland Avenue and 31st Street near the Stevenson Expressway. Ashland station is situated 2,700 feet south of Prairie Material.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilsen and McKinley Park.

Pilsen

Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, Pilsen 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.

McKinley Park

Suburb

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McKinley Park, one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, is located on the city's southwest side.

Bridgeport

Suburb

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Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the South Branch of the Chicago River, on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Prairie Material

Type: Industrial building
Address: 2464-2500 South Laflin Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Categories: building and industry
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.84681° or 41° 50′ 49″ north

Longitude

-87.66411° or 87° 39′ 51″ west

Open location code

86HJR8WP+P9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 209786594

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Ashland Avenue Bridge and Loomis Street Bridge.

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