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Bronzeville may refer to: Another name for the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, during World War II. A neighborhood and district in Chicago, Illinois. Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District, a historic district within the Bronzeville neighborhood. King-Lincoln Bronzeville, a neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. A neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois . The neighborhood encompasses the land between the Dan Ryan Expressway to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to the east, 31st Street to the north, and ...
April 30, 1986. Designated CL. September 9, 1998. Erected in 1927, the Victory Monument, is a bronze and granite sculptural monument, based on a concept by John A. Nyden, and sculpted by Leonard Crunelle. [2] It was built to honor the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African-American unit that served with distinction in France ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Bronzeville Scholastic Institute High School (BSI) is a public4–year high schoollocated in the Bronzevilleneighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.[15] The school is named after the community in which it is located, Bronzeville. In 1930, the editor of the Chicago Beeused the name in a campaign to elect the "mayor of ...
Douglas, Chicago. / 41.83472°N 87.61806°W / 41.83472; -87.61806. Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois politician and Abraham Lincoln 's political foe, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government. [3]
4021 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois. Founded. 1916. Built. 1922. Architect. Edward G. McClellan. 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.
The Forum is a historic event venue at 318-328 E. 43rd Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago alderman William Kent and his father Albert had the venue built in 1897, intending it to be a social and political meeting hall. Architect Samuel Atwater Treat gave the building a Late ...