The Pershing

The Pershing is an apartment building in , , which is located on South State Street. The Pershing is situated nearby to , as well as near the fire station .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include South Side Community Art Center and Rate Field.

Arts center
The is a community art center in that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in . is situated 920 feet east of The Pershing.

Stadium
is a baseball on the of , 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. is situated 2,900 feet northwest of The Pershing.

Library
The is a historic building on Chicago's . It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. is situated 1,400 feet north of The Pershing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Fuller Park.

, 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.

Suburb
is the 37th of 's 77 community areas. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as 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.

Suburb
on the of , , is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.

The Pershing

Latitude
41.82417° or 41° 49′ 27″ north
Longitude
-87.62603° or 87° 37′ 34″ west
Named after
John J. Pershing
Open location code
86HJR9FF+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210526741
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­apartments
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Highlights include Dawson Technical Institute of Kennedy-King College and Chicago Fire Department Engine Company 16.

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