Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Chicago, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 4.9 km
Ascend 40 m
Descend 41 m

Explore Chicago in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Chicago

Sight 1: Olivet Baptist Church

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Olivet Baptist Church is a church located in Chicago, Illinois. The congregation first formed in 1861 through the merger of two African-American congregations.

Wikipedia: Olivet Baptist Church (EN)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Camp Douglas

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Camp Douglas

Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Confederate prisoners.

Wikipedia: Camp Douglas (Chicago) (EN), Website

771 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 3: Carr Memorial Chapel

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Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, colloquially known as the "God Box", is a modest, one-story brick building situated near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and 32nd Street on the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Notably, this is the only nonsecular structure designed by German-American modern architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who at the time served as the director of the School of Architecture.

Wikipedia: Carr Memorial Chapel (EN)

967 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: Overton Hygienic Building

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Hygienic Manufacturing Company, also known as Overton Hygienic Company, was a cosmetics company established by Anthony Overton. It was one of the nation's largest producers of African-American cosmetics. Anthony Overton also ran other businesses from the building, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. The Overton Hygienic Building is a Chicago Landmark and part of the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 3619-3627 South State Street.

Wikipedia: Hygienic Manufacturing Company (EN)

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Haymarket Police Memorial

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520 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Eighth Regiment Armory

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Eighth Regiment Armory

The Eighth Regiment Armory, located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of Chicago, Illinois, was the first armory in the United States built for an African-American military regiment, known as the "Fighting 8th". The building later was used by a division of the Illinois National Guard, and during World War I was incorporated into the US Infantry. After closing the armory in the early 1960s, it became the South Central Gymnasium. In 1999, following an extensive renovation, it was reopened as a public high school military academy. The restoration and conversion into a school has been recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Wikipedia: Eighth Regiment Armory (Chicago) (EN)

571 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: Ida B. Wells Homes

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The Ida B. Wells Homes, which also comprised the Clarence Darrow Homes and Madden Park Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was bordered by 35th Street to the north, Pershing Road to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and Martin Luther King Drive to the west. The Ida B. Wells Homes consisted of rowhouses, mid-rises, and high-rise apartment buildings, first constructed 1939 to 1941 to house African American tenants. They were closed and demolished beginning in 2002 and ending in 2011.

Wikipedia: Ida B. Wells Homes (EN)

381 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Victory Monument

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Erected in 1927, the Victory Monument, is a bronze and granite sculptural monument, based on a concept by John A. Nyden, and sculpted by Leonard Crunelle. It was built to honor the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African-American unit that served with distinction in France during World War I. It may be the only memorial statue dedicated to African-American soldiers of the Great War.

Wikipedia: Victory Monument (Chicago) (EN)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Bronzeville

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Bronzeville

The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

Wikipedia: Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District (EN)

779 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Stephen A. Douglas Tomb

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Stephen A. Douglas Tomb / Attribution

The Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial or Stephen Douglas Monument Park is a memorial that includes the tomb of United States Senator Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861). It is located at 636 E. 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, near the site of the Union Army and prisoner of war Camp Douglas. The land was originally owned by Douglas’ estate but was sold to the state of Illinois, when it became known as “Camp Douglas” serving first as training grounds for Union soldiers during the Civil War, then as a prisoner of war camp.

Wikipedia: Stephen A. Douglas Tomb (EN), Website

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