About the Area

Bronzeville is a neighborhood located in the Douglas and Grand Boulevard community areas on the South Side of city of Chicago around the Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois College of Optometry. It is accessible via the Green, Red Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority or the Metra Electric District Main Line.

The 14-foot historical bronze map of the Bronzeville area designed
by Greg Lefevre. It is located at the beginning of the Walk of Fame on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
One square on the Bronzeville Walk of Fame. The walk includes 91
bronze plaques with names of famous residents of the Bronzeville area.
It is located on a 1.5 mile stretch of the median of Martin Luther
King, Jr. Drive from 25th to 47th street.
The Chicago Defender building located at 3435 S. Indiana Ave., and
built in 1899. The Chicago Defender was a newspaper founded by Robert
S. Abbott in 1905 to serve the Bronzeville area. The Newspaper became
the most widely circulated African American paper ever. The author
Langston Hughes was a writer with the Defender between the years
The Victory monument was erected in 1926 to honor the Eighth
Regiment of The Illinois National Guard, an African American Unit, for
their achievement in France during WW1. It is located at the
intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and 35th Street. It
serves today as the annual kickoff spot for the Bud Biliken Day
Parade.
The home of journalist and Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells from
1919-1930. This home is located at 3624 S. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Drive and was built in 1889. Ida B. Wells was one of the founders of
the NAACP
Statue named "Monument to the Great Northern Migration designed by
Alison Saar and dedicated in 1996. It is located on Martin Luther
King, Jr. Drive between 25th and 26th Streets.


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http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/culturaltourism/laurasummers/places.html