Category Archives: Chicago South
Above Image: Monument to the Great Northern Migration - by Alison Saar
The King Drive Gateway Project
Dedicated: 1996
Funded by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority.
It allotted $10 million to rehabilitate King Drive. The allotment included $500,000 for a design element that would later become known as the Public Art...
Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District or simply Bronzeville is a historic district in the Douglas community area of South Side of Chicago. It has nine structures that were accorded the Chicago Landmark designation on September 9, 1998. Arguably it is one of the nation's most significant landmarks of African-American urban history .. Developed during the first decades of the 20th century, this "city-within-a-city" was home to numerous nationally prominent, African-American...
Chicago's Chinatown
Chicago's Chinatown: Chinese are the largest Asian group in the United States, and Chicago has the 4th largest Chinatown in the United States. If I'm not mistaken the largest Chinatown is in San Francisco, followed by New York, Boston and then Chicago. Places of interest in Chicago's Chinatown...
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Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
is at the Governors State University. It provides the Chicagoland region with a premier presentation of large-scale contemporary sculpture.
It has about 30 works of sculptures within 100+ acres of prairie landscape. The permanent collection includes 24 pieces; five works are on long-term loan from the artists.
Highlights include several important landscape-based sculptures created by distinguished artists at the height...
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