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Historical Markers and War Memorials on Chicago’s South Side

 
By Andrew Ruppenstein, August 27, 2021
Richard Wright Marker - wide view
201 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Richard Wright — Chicago Tribute —
202 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Richard Wright — 1908-1960 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
203 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Robert Motts — 1861-1911 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
204 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Robert R. Taylor — 1899-1957 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
205 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Robert S. Abbott — 1870-1940 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
206 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Robert W. Roloson Houses — Frank Lloyd Wright, architect; 1894 — Chicago Landmark —
207 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — S.B. Fuller — 1905-1980 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
208 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — S.R. Crown Hall —
209 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Sam Cooke — 1931-1964 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
210 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Sidney A. Kent House — Burnham and Root, architects; 1883 — Chicago Landmark —
211 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — St. Claire Drake / Horace R. Clayton — 1911-1990 / 1903-1970 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
212 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — State Street —
213 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Sunset Cafe — Chicago Landmark —
214 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Supreme Life Building — Built 1921; remodeled 1950 — Chicago Landmark —
215 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — The Boulevard System —
216 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — The History of the "Fighting Eighth" Infantry Regiment and the Giles Armory —
217 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — The Ida B. Wells Homes —
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218 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — The Savoy Big Five — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
219 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Theodore K. Lawless — 1892-1971 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
220 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Theresa Needham — 1912-1992 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
221 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Truman Gibson Sr. / Truman Gibson Jr. — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
222 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Unity Hall — Chicago Landmark —
223 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Victory, World War I Black Soldiers’ Memorial —
224 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Vivian Harsh — 1890-1960 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
225 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Walter T. Bailey Giles — 1882-1941 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
226 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Welcome to Bronzeville —
227 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Welcome to Bronzeville —
228 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Wendell Phillips High School — William Bryce Mundie, architect; 1904 — Chicago Landmark —
229 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Willa Brown — 1906-1992 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
230 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Willard Motley / Archibald Motley, Jr. — 1912-1965 / 1891-1981 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
231 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — William J. Otterson — 1885-1919 —
232 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — William L. Dawson — 1886-1971 — Bronzeville Walk of Fame —
233 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Stephen A. Douglas Memorial — Leonard W. Volk, designer and sculptor 1881 — Chicago Landmark —
234 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Hyde Park — Harold Washington — Chicago Tribute —
235 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — About the Sculpture —
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236 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Calumet Park Fieldhouse — South Park Commission, architects; 1922-24 — Chicago Landmark —
237 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — East Side Veterans Memorial —
238 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Illinois-Indiana Boundary Marker —
239 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Martyrs—Heroes—Unionists —
240 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Martyrs—Heroes—Unionists —
241 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — National Historic Site Memorial Day Massacre — May 30, 1937 —
242 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Side — Steelworkers Organize in the Southeast Side —
243 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Englewood — (Former) Chicago City Bank & Trust Company — Abraham Epstein, architect; 1929-30 — Chicago Landmark —
244 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Englewood — Canaan Baptist Church of Christ Building — Solon S. Beman, architect; 1904-05 — Chicago Landmark —
245 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Englewood — Truevine Missionary Baptist Church Building — Holabird and Roche, architects; 1892 — Chicago Landmark —
246 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Englewood — Yale Apartments — John T. Long, architect; 1892-1893 — Chicago Landmark —
247 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Ridge — 9/11 Memorial —
248 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Ridge — Clearing-Park Shops Memorial —
249 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Ridge — Solidarity Monument — Dignity • Freedom —
250 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Ridge — Veterans Memorial —
251 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Ridge — Veterans Memorial —
252 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Golden Gate — Activists in the Anti-Slavery Movement —
253 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Golden Gate — Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad: Ton Farm Site —
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254 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Golden Gate — Pathways to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Chicago —
255 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Adrinka Symbols —
256 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Bessie Coleman — Chicago Tribute —
257 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — Chicago Landmark —
258 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong — Chicago Tribute —
259 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Melissia Ann Elam Home — Chicago Landmark —
260 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Nat "King" Cole — Chicago Tribute —
261 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Oscar DePriest — Chicago Tribute —
262 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Richard Wright House — Chicago Landmark —
263 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Robert S. Abbott — Chicago Tribute —
264 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — The Forum — 1897 —
265 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — The Honorable Harold Washington —
266 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — The Marx Brothers — Chicago Tribute —
267 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — 9/11 Memorial —
268 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Memorial —
269 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Confederate Mound —
270 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Confederate Mound Monument —
271 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Jesse Owens — Olympic Champion — 1936 —
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272 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Memorial to Union Supporters from Southern States —
273 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Relic of the Chicago Fire —
274 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — Roland W. Burris, Esq. — Trail Blazer —
275 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Greater Grand Crossing — The Confederate Dead at Oak Woods Cemetery —
276 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Groveland Park — Stephen A. Douglas: Douglas and Lincoln —
277 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Groveland Park — Stephen A. Douglas: The Chicago Years —
278 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Groveland Park — Stephen A. Douglas: The Douglas Tomb —
279 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Groveland Park — Stephen Arnold Douglas — 1813-1861 —
280 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — "Original Professors’ Row" —
281 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Cheney-Goode Memorial —
282 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Cheney-Goode Memorial —
283 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Enrico and Laura Fermi —
284 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Greenwood Row Houses — Chicago Landmark District —
285 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Jackson Park —
286 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Lorado Taft — Sculptor (1860-1936) — Chicago Tribute —
287 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Masaryk Memorial Monument — 1850 - 1937 —
288 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Museum of Science and Industry — Charles B. Atwood, architect; 1891-93 — Chicago Landmark — Reported missing
289 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Obama Kissing Rock —
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290 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction — December 2, 1942 —
291 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — The Boulevard System —
292 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — The Boulevard System —
293 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Washington Park —
294 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — 35th Anniversary of Chicago-Osaka Sister City Relationship —
295 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Acknowledging Indigenous Peoples' Land and Territory —
296 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Alison Saar, b. 1956 — Torch Song, 2026 — Cast bronze with patina —
297 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Ann Dunham —
298 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Congressman John Lewis, 2020 —
299 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Creating Common Ground —
300 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Jackson Park — Garden of the Phoenix — Reported permanently removed

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