Grand Boulevard, Chicago

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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 well-defined 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.

This community area includes the Washington Park Court District neighborhood that was declared a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991.^[1]

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

[edit] External links

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

[edit] 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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