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47th and South Parkway

CTL-PL-0128 · Place

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Historic Bronzeville intersection

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Historic Bronzeville intersection

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WTTW Chicago's 'Bronzeville, The Black Metropolis' text (republished in full by Preservation Chicago, tier 3) states that from the 1920s through the 1950s the pulsing energy of Bronzeville, on Chicago's South Side, was located at the crowded corners of 35th and State Street and 47th Street and South Parkway Boulevard (later renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive), where people came to shop, conduct business, dine and dance - establishing the intersection of 47th Street and South Parkway as a historic Bronzeville place, with South Parkway now King Drive. (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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