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Chicago Defender Building

The Chicago Defender Building, located at 3435 S. Indiana Avenue in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of the community area of Chicago, , housed the Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960.
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  • 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 Rate Field and Chicago Bee Building.

Stadium
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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 3,500 feet west of Chicago Defender Building.

Library
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The is a historic building on Chicago's . It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Chicago Defender Building.

School
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is a private, Catholic, coeducational high school run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the neighborhood on the of , Illinois. is situated 760 feet west of Chicago Defender Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Bronzeville.

Suburb
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, on the of , is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. , Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.

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, 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
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is a neighborhood on the city's , as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes and the CHA housing project.

Chicago Defender Building

Latitude
41.83182° or 41° 49′ 55″ north
Longitude
-87.62143° or 87° 37′ 17″ west
Levels
2
Open location code
86HJR9JH+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210534537
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q5095575
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Highlights include Indiana Avenue Pentecostal Church of God and Eighth Regiment Armory.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chicago Defender Building”. Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.