Chicago Bee Building
The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side. It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago.Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: building in Illinois, United States
- Address: 3647 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60653
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rate Field and Hygienic Manufacturing Company.
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 2,200 feet west of Chicago Bee Building.
Hygienic Manufacturing Company
Apartment building
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hygienic Manufacturing Company, also known as Overton Hygienic Company, was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton. It was one of the United States's largest producers of African-American cosmetics. Hygienic Manufacturing Company is situated 330 feet north of Chicago Bee Building.
Sox–35th station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Douglas.
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.
Douglas
Suburb
Photo: Jovianeye, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Douglas is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the South Side of Chicago. The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street, south to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line, along…
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.
Chicago Bee Building
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.82807° or 41° 49′ 41″ northLongitude
-87.62608° or 87° 37′ 34″ westNamed after
Chicago BeeOpen location code
86HJR9HF+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 210533137OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeOpenStreetMap feature
building=apartmentsOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q5095503
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In Other Languages
“Chicago Bee Building” goes by many names.
- Russian: “Чикаго-Би-билдинг”
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Highlights include Chicago Bee Branch and Stateway Park.
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