Sunset Cafe

The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe or simply Grand Terrace, was a jazz club in , operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
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  • Type: Commercial building
  • Description: architectural structure
  • Also known as: “Former Sunset Cafe”
  • Address: 313-315 East 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Eighth Regiment Armory and Chicago Military Academy.

Memorial
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The , located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of , , was the first armory in the United States built for an African-American military regiment, known as the "Fighting 8th".

School
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Chicago Military Academy-Bronzeville is a four-year military high school in the neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in a building known as the .

Memorial
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Erected in 1927, the is a bronze and granite sculptural monument, based on a concept by John A. Nyden and sculpted by Leonard Crunelle. is situated 400 feet east of Sunset Cafe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Bronzeville.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States, located on the of Chicago. The community area stretches from 26th Street, south to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line, along…

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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 one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States. It is located on the South Side of Chicago. Bordered by 35th and 43rd Streets, Cottage Grove Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, the area was developed between 1872 and 1905.

Sunset Cafe

Latitude
41.83087° or 41° 49′ 51″ north
Longitude
-87.61861° or 87° 37′ 7″ west
Levels
2
Open location code
86HJR9JJ+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210962194
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
Wiki­data ID
Q973237
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Norwegian Bokmål—“Sunset Cafe” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Sunset Cafe”
  • Esperanto: “Sunset Cafe”
  • French: “Sunset Cafe”
  • German: “Sunset Cafe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Terrace Ballroom”
  • Norwegian: “Grand Terrace Ballroom”

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