Wentworth Gardens

Wentworth Gardens is a 344-unit housing project operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. It lies just south of in on Chicago's south side.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rate Field and Sox–35th station.

Stadium
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 1,600 feet north of Wentworth Gardens.

Railway station
Photo: zol87, CC BY 3.0.
Sox–35th is an station on the 's Red Line. It is situated at 142 West 35th Street in the neighborhood. The station opened on September 28, 1969, along with the other eight stations on the Dan Ryan branch. is situated 2,200 feet north of Wentworth Gardens.

Heritage site
The is a historic building on Chicago's . It originally housed the Chicago Bee, a newspaper serving the African Americans of Chicago. is situated 2,000 feet northeast of Wentworth Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fuller Park and Bronzeville.

Suburb
is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as 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.

, 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
is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the of the , on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Wentworth Gardens

Latitude
41.82547° or 41° 49′ 32″ north
Longitude
-87.63261° or 87° 37′ 57″ west
Operator
Chicago Housing Authority
Named after
John Wentworth
Open location code
86HJR9G8+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 231452644
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Wiki­data ID
Q97184281
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  • Dutch: Wentworth Gardens

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Wentworth Gardens Park and Wentworth Gardens Park Fieldhouse.

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