Root Street Tower
Root Street Tower is a tower in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on West Root Street. Root Street Tower is situated nearby to Metcalfe Park, as well as near the health club 12th Flow Performance System.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rate Field and Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ.
Rate Field
Stadium
Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, 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. Rate Field is situated 4,000 feet north of Root Street Tower.
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ
Church
Photo: Legimet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ is a Christian house of worship located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The church was the site of Emmett Till's open-casket funeral in 1955. Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Root Street Tower.
South Side Community Art Center
Arts center
Photo: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. South Side Community Art Center is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Root Street Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fuller Park and Bronzeville.
Fuller Park
Suburb
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Fuller Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the Loop. It is named for a small park also known as Fuller Park 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.
Bronzeville
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Grand Boulevard
Suburb
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Root Street Tower
- Type: Tower
- Address: 42-46 West Root Street, Chicago, IL 60609
- Category: building
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.81935° or 41° 49′ 10″ northLongitude
-87.62888° or 87° 37′ 44″ westOpen location code
86HJR99C+PCOpenStreetMap ID
way 405530415OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tower
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Highlights include Metcalfe Park and 12th Flow Performance System.
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