Oakwood Center

Oakwood Center is a community center in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on South Vincennes Avenue. Oakwood Center is situated nearby to the university Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, as well as near Holy Angels Catholic Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rate Field and South Side Community Art Center.

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 1¼ miles west of Oakwood Center.

South Side Community Art Center

Arts center

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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 2,900 feet west of Oakwood Center.

Ida B. Wells Homes

Memorial

Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Ida B. Wells Homes, which also included the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, bordered by 35th Street to the north, Pershing Road to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and Martin Luther King Drive to the west. Ida B. Wells Homes is situated 1,500 feet northwest of Oakwood Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronzeville and Oakland.

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.

Oakland

Suburb

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Oakland is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago 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 Oakland area was developed between 1872 and 1905.

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…

Oakwood Center

Type: Community center
Address: 3825 South Vincennes Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
Categories: building and commercial building
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.82506° or 41° 49′ 30″ north

Longitude

-87.61203° or 87° 36′ 43″ west

Open location code

86HJR9GQ+25

OpenStreetMap ID

way 769714902

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=community_centre

OpenStreetMap feature

building=commercial

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