Burnham Wildlife Corridor
Burnham Wildlife Corridor is a nature reserve in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on South Lake Shore Drive. Burnham Wildlife Corridor is situated nearby to the neighborhood South Commons, as well as near Motor Row District.Places of Interest
Highlights include Soldier Field and The Field Museum of Natural History.
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.
The Field Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The Field Museum of Natural History, also commonly called the Field Museum, is a private–public natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Near South and Bridgeport-Chinatown.
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.
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.
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.
Burnham Wildlife Corridor
- Type: Nature reserve
- Address: South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60616
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.8463° or 41° 50′ 47″ northLongitude
-87.61° or 87° 36′ 36″ westOperator
Chicago Park DistrictOpen location code
86HJR9WQ+GXOpenStreetMap ID
way 769816397OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include McCormick Place Parking Lot B Overflow and 27th Street station.
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