Chicago Defender Building
The Chicago Defender Building, located at 3435 S. Indiana Avenue in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois, housed the Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960.Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Commercial building
- Description: building in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Former Chicago Defender Building”
- Address: 3435 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pilgrim Baptist Church and Rate Field.
Pilgrim Baptist Church
Heritage site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church at 3301 South Indiana Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Pilgrim Baptist Church is situated 970 feet north of Chicago Defender Building.
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 3,500 feet west of Chicago Defender Building.
De La Salle Institute
School
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De La Salle Institute is a private, Catholic, coeducational high school run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. De La Salle Institute is situated 760 feet west of Chicago Defender Building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Douglas and Bronzeville.
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…
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.
Armour Square
Suburb
Armour Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the city's South Side. It includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.
Chicago Defender Building
- Categories: building and office
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.83182° or 41° 49′ 55″ northLongitude
-87.62143° or 87° 37′ 17″ westLevels
2Open location code
86HJR9JH+PCOpenStreetMap ID
way 210534537OpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialWikidata ID
Q5095575
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