Douglas, Chicago
| Douglas | |
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| Community area | |
| Community Area 35 - Douglas | |
Prairie Shores in Bronzeville
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 Location within the city of Chicago |
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| Coordinates: 41°49.8′N 87°37.2′W / 41.8300°N 87.6200°WCoordinates: 41°49.8′N 87°37.2′W / 41.8300°N 87.6200°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| City | Chicago |
| Neighborhoods | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.67 sq mi (4.33 km2) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 19,430 |
| • Density | 12,000/sq mi (4,500/km2) |
| Demographics 2014 | |
| • White | 11.99% |
| • Black | 71.1% |
| • Hispanic | 2.19% |
| • Asian | 13.07% |
| • Other | 1.65% |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP Codes | parts of 60609, 60616 and 60653 |
| Median household income | $32,805 |
| Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services | |
Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of 77 Chicago community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois politician, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government. This tract later was developed for use as the Civil War Union training and prison camp, Camp Douglas, located in what is now the eastern portion of the Douglas neighborhood. Douglas gave that part of his estate at Cottage Grove and 35th to the Old University of Chicago. The Chicago 2016 Olympic bid planned for the Olympic Village to be constructed on a 37-acre (150,000 m2) truck parking lot south of McCormick Place that is mostly in the Douglas community area and partly in the Near South Side.
The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street South to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore, including parts of the Green Line along State Street and the Metra Electric and Amtrak passenger railroad tracks, which run parallel to Lake Shore Drive. Burnham Park runs along its shoreline, containing 31st Street Beach. The community area also contains part of the neighborhood of Bronzeville, the historic center of African-American culture in the city since the early 20th century and the Great Migration.
Bronzeville is a neighborhood in the Douglas and Grand Boulevard community areas on the South Side of Chicago around the Illinois Institute of Technology, VanderCook College of Music, and Illinois College of Optometry. It is accessible via the Green and Red lines of the Chicago Transit Authority, as well as the Metra Electric District Main Line. In 2011 a new Metra station, Jones/Bronzeville Station, opened to serve the neighborhood on the Rock Island and planned SouthEast Service.
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