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Grand Boulevard (Chicago, Illinois)
Community Area 38 - Grand Boulevard

Location within the city of Chicago
Latitude
Longitude		 41°48.6′N, 87°37.2′W
Neighborhoods
  • Grand Boulevard
ZIP Code parts of 60609, 60615 and 60653
Area 4.48 km² (1.73 mi²)
Population (2000)
Density		 28,006 (down 21.98% from 1990)
6,250.4 /km²
Demographics White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other		 0.62%
97.7%
0.84%
0.07%
0.74%
Median income $21,672
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

Grand Boulevard, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the official Chicago Community Areas. The boulevard from which the community area takes its name now bears the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The area is bounded by 39th to the north, 51st Street to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the west. The Robert Taylor Homes were located mostly in Grand Boulevard. This is one of the two community areas that are part of the area known as Bronzeville, with the other being Douglas. The city Chicago, Illinois, is divided into seventy-seven community areas. ... Chicago Community Area 38 - Grand Boulevard This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Nickname: Motto: “Urbs in Horto” (Latin: “City in a Garden”), “I Will” Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Latitude,usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. ... Longitude is the east-west geographic coordinate measurement most commonly utilized in cartography and global navigation. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Mr. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Demographics refers to selected population characteristics as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... In probability theory and statistics, a median is a number dividing the higher half of a sample, a population, or a probability distribution from the lower half. ... Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. ... Nickname: Motto: “Urbs in Horto” (Latin: “City in a Garden”), “I Will” Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... The city Chicago is divided into seventy-seven community areas. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Robert Taylor Homes is the name of a housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago, alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway. ...


This community area includes the Washington Park Court District neighborhood that was declared a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991.[1] The Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood in the city of Chicago, Illinois. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Landmarks of Chicago. ... October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...


The Harold Washington Cultural Center is one of its newer and more famous buildings. Among the other notable properties in this neighborhood are Daniel Hale Williams House, Robert S. Abbott House and Oscar Stanton De Priest House Harold Washington Cultural Center is a performance facility located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. ... The Daniel Hale Williams House is the former home of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931), one of the first major African American surgeons. ... The Robert S. Abbott House is the former home of Robert S. Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper. ... The Oscar Stanton De Priest House is the current name of an eight-flat apartment building located at 4536-4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...


External link

  • Official City of Chicago Grand Boulevard Community Map
  • Chicago Southside - Public housing history and current redevelopments

Notes

  1. ^ Washington Park Court District. City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division (2003). Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
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South side Armour Square • Douglas • Oakland • Fuller Park • Grand Boulevard • Kenwood • Washington Park • Hyde Park • Woodlawn • South Shore • Bridgeport • Greater Grand Crossing
Far Southwest side Ashburn • Auburn Gresham • Beverly • Washington Heights • Mount Greenwood • Morgan Park
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Grand Boulevard (712 words)
Originally called the Forrestville Settlement, the Grand Boulevard community became a part of Hyde Park Township in 1861, and was annexed with Hyde Park to Chicago in 1889.
The area is bounded by 39th and 51st Streets to the north and south, and by Cottage Grove Avenue and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad tracks to the east and west.
The population of the Grand Boulevard community grew steadily throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, attracting not only the wealthy, but middle- and working-class American-born whites of Irish, Scottish, and English origin, German Jews, and a few African Americans.
Greater Grand Crossing (640 words)
The accident occurred at what is now 75th Street and South Chicago Avenue when Roswell B. Mason, who was to become a Chicago mayor, secretly had intersecting tracks built for the Illinois Central across the rail lines of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.
Chicago real-estate developer Paul Cornell thought that the area surrounding the intersection, although it was mostly prairie and swampland, would be ideal for suburban development because transportation to Chicago was assured via the railroads.
White City, an amusement park which opened in 1904, towered over the northern part of Greater Grand Crossing from Grand Boulevard, to Calumet Avenue and from 63rd to 67th Streets until it was closed in 1933.
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