Destinations · Illinois
Chicago/Bronzeville
IL · 41.8203, -87.6224
From Chicago/Bronzeville, Illinois, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
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
- Ida B. Wells Homes · 1 mi
- Haymarket Police Memorial · 1 mi
- Eighth Regiment Armory · 1 mi
- The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument · 1 mi
- Victory Monument · 1 mi
- Major Robert H. Lawrence · 1 mi
- Earl "Fatha" Hines · 1 mi
- Truman Gibson · 1 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