Pershing Elementary School

Pershing Elementary School is a school in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, which is located on South Calumet Avenue. Pershing Elementary School is situated near the terrace house Roloson Houses, as well as near the suburb Douglas.

Type: School
Also known as: “Pershing West Elementary School”
Address: 3200 South Calumet Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Pilgrim Baptist Church and Roloson Houses.

Pilgrim Baptist Church

Heritage site

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Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church at 3301 South Indiana Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Pilgrim Baptist Church is situated 840 feet southwest of Pershing Elementary School.

Roloson Houses

Terrace house

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The Roloson Houses, also known as the Robert W. Roloson Houses, are a group of four adjacent row houses in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Olivet Baptist Church

Church

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Olivet Baptist Church is a church located in Chicago, Illinois. The congregation first formed in 1861 through the merger of two African-American congregations. Olivet Baptist Church is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Pershing Elementary School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Douglas and Armour Square.

Douglas

Suburb

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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…

Armour Square

Suburb

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Armour Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the city's South Side. It includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.

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.

Pershing Elementary School

Category: education
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.83567° or 41° 50′ 8″ north

Longitude

-87.61881° or 87° 37′ 8″ west

Operator

Chicago Public Schools

Named after

John J. Pershing

Open location code

86HJR9PJ+7F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 405326828

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

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