Wabash Avenue YMCA
Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Commercial building
- Description: building and Green Book historical site in Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Former Wabash Avenue YMCA”, “The ‘Y’ (Wabash Avenue, Chicago)”, “W.M.C.A.”, “Wabash ‘Y’”, “Wabash YMCA”, “WMCA”, “Y.M.C.A. (Wabash Avenue, Chicago)”, and “YMCA (Wabash Avenue, Chicago)”
- Address: 3757 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include South Side Community Art Center and Chicago Bee Building.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. South Side Community Art Center is situated 600 feet southeast of Wabash Avenue YMCA.
Chicago Bee Building
Heritage site
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Chicago Bee Building is situated 980 feet northwest of Wabash Avenue YMCA.
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 2,900 feet northwest of Wabash Avenue YMCA.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bronzeville and Fuller Park.
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.
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.
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…
Wabash Avenue YMCA
- Categories: boarding house, hotel, temporary housing, building, and office
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.8257° or 41° 49′ 33″ northLongitude
-87.62438° or 87° 37′ 28″ westOpen location code
86HJR9GG+76OpenStreetMap ID
way 210535442OpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialWikidata ID
Q3564923
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“Wabash Avenue YMCA” goes by many names.
- French: “Wabash Avenue YMCA”
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