Google Maps Neighborhood Landmarks

The Bronzeville Community in Chicago, IL is the location I have chosen to create my maps about. The Bronzeville Community has plenty of history built in and around this historic Chicago neighborhood. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. Chicago's black population stretched along 22nd to 63rd streets between State Street and Cottage Grove. But the pulsing energy of Bronzeville was located at the crowded corners of 35th and State Street and 47th Street and South Parkway Boulevard (later renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive). At those intersections, people came to see and be seen, shop, conduct business, dine and dance, and experience this bustling black metropolis. The crowds reflected the diverse mix of people living in the black belt: young and old, poor and prosperous, professionals and laborers.Today, the Bronzeville neighborhood is a great place to live and raise a family. The Landmarks includes schools, businesses, libraries, cultural centers, and many more historic landmarks. Two more landmarks that are very important to my community, is the Victory Monument located on 35th & King Drive, and the home of Ida. B. Wells located at 3624 S. King Drive.