Ping Tom Boat House

Ping Tom Boat House is a building in Cook, Illinois. Ping Tom Boat House is situated nearby to REI Co-op Kayak Rentals at Ping Tom Memorial Park, as well as near Ping Tom Playground.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chess Records and Soldier Field.

Chess Records

Museum

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Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. Chess Records is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Ping Tom Boat House.

Soldier Field

Stadium

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Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League since 1971, as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer since 2020. Soldier Field is situated 1 mile east of Ping Tom Boat House.

Chinatown Branch

Library

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The Chinatown Branch is a branch of the Chicago Public Library in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The 16,000-square-foot building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 2015. Chinatown Branch is situated 1,700 feet south of Ping Tom Boat House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridgeport-Chinatown and Near South.

Bridgeport-Chinatown

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Bridgeport-Chinatown is the South Side at its most dynamic, as the old South Side Irish neighborhood of the Daleys increasingly blends with the old Chinese immigrant community to the north.

Near South

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The Near South is the home of several of Chicago's main attractions: the splendid Museum Campus, with three world-class natural science museums on the lakefront; Soldier Field, home of the NFL's Chicago Bears; and McCormick Place, the city's massive convention center.

South Loop

Quarter

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South Loop is a Chicago neighborhood south of the Loop. The South Branch of the Chicago River flows through it. Chinatown is adjacent to the southwest, and Museum Campus is to its east.

Ping Tom Boat House

Type: Canoe
Categories: building and sports location
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.8581° or 41° 51′ 29″ north

Longitude

-87.63427° or 87° 38′ 3″ west

Inception

June 9th, 2013

Operator

Chicago Park District

Open location code

86HJV958+67

OpenStreetMap ID

way 225042817

OpenStreetMap feature

building=boathouse

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=canoe

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