Destinations · Illinois
Bronzeville, Chicago
IL · 41.8203, -87.6224
Historic Route 66 and Lincoln Highway are signed byways within 30 miles of Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois.
Understand
Bronzeville was the site of Chicago's version of the Harlem Renaissance, and was home to many famous African-Americans, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Coleman, Ida B Wells, Andrew Foster, and many more. The neighborhood was from the 1920s to the 1940s one of the premiere centers of African-American culture and was fairly affluent and middle class. The Great Depression hit the area hard, bankrupting black-owned businesses, but the neighborhood's worst enemy proved to be the neglectful and segregationist city government.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic Route 66 · 3 mi · national
- Lincoln Highway · 22 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 21 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 12 mi
Named places
- Poplar Park · 0 mi
- Park No. 590 · 0 mi
- Aspen Park · 0 mi
- Metcalfe Park · 0 mi
- Jackson Playlot Park · 0 mi
- Bronzeville Renaissance Mural · 0 mi
- Hadiya Pendleton Park · 0 mi
- Louis Anderson Park · 0 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Chicago/Bridgeport-Chinatown · 2 mi
- Chicago/Hyde Park · 3 mi
- Chicago/Near South · 3 mi
- Chicago/Pilsen · 3 mi
- Chicago · 4 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 4 mi