The Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender is an office building in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive. The Chicago Defender is situated nearby to Birch Park, as well as near the suburb Grand Boulevard.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church and Harold Washington Cultural Center.
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
Church
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The Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church is a historic church at 4501 S. Vincennes Avenue in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1899, the building was originally a synagogue for the Isaiah Temple congregation. Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church is situated 720 feet east of The Chicago Defender.
Harold Washington Cultural Center
Theater building
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Harold Washington Cultural Center is a performance facility located in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened in August 2004, ten years after initial groundbreaking. Harold Washington Cultural Center is situated 1,600 feet south of The Chicago Defender.
Oscar Stanton De Priest House
Residential building
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The Oscar Stanton De Priest House is an historic apartment building at 4536–4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1920, and one of its units was from 1929 to 1951 home to Oscar Stanton De Priest, the first African-American to be elected to the United States Congress from a northern state. Oscar Stanton De Priest House is situated 710 feet southwest of The Chicago Defender.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Bronzeville.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
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Grand Boulevard is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.
Bronzeville
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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.
North Kenwood District
Neighborhood
The North Kenwood District is a historic district within the Kenwood community area of South Side, Chicago, Illinois.
The Chicago Defender
- Type: Office building
- Address: 4445 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL 60653
- Categories: building, office, and newspaper publisher
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.81361° or 41° 48′ 49″ northLongitude
-87.61601° or 87° 36′ 58″ westLevels
2Open location code
86HJR97M+CHOpenStreetMap ID
way 210914556OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeOpenStreetMap feature
office=newspaper
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Notable Places Nearby
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