Dunbar Park

WHAT IT’S FOR Dearborn Homes brings rooftop and ground-mounted solar generation to the Bronzeville community, providing a new supply of clean, renewable energy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of air pollution. Beyond... Read more

Ada S. McKinley Community Services Organization 2907 South Wabash Avenue (773)723-4140 In 1919, McKinley started the South Side Settlement House near 34th & Wabash Ave. The settlement house was used as a home base for black soldiers ret... Read more

Founded in 1904, the integrated Frederick Douglass Center served Chicagoans in the Bronzeville and Armour Square neighborhoods. The Center served as the Second Ward’s war office during World War I where women maintained an exemption board... Read more

A lavish “Black and Tan” Club open to Black and White patrons and owned by the World’s First Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. He purchased a home for his mother at 3344 S. Wabash Avenue.

Dunbar Park is 21.80 acres and is located in the Douglas Community. The park features four baseball diamonds, athletic fields, picnic groves, tennis courts, a running track, a batting cage, an interactive water feature and a reading garden.... Read more

Founded in 1904, the integrated Frederick Douglass Center served Chicagoans in the Bronzeville and Armour Square neighborhoods. The Center served as the Second Ward’s war office during World War I where women maintained an exemption board... Read more

37th Street, on the right when traveling north. (3743 S. Indiana Avenue) Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially rel... Read more