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Oakland, Chicago facts for kids

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Oakland, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Some of Chicago's great old homes may be seen on Drexel Boulevard.

Nineteenth-century women's rights and Jewish activist Hannah Greenebaum lived in Oakland. The late 19th-century Monument Baptist Church on Oakwood Blvd. is modeled after Boston's Trinity Church. Oakwood /41st Street Beach in Burnham Park is at 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive.


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  • Abraham Lincoln Centre Chicago 1913

    Abraham Lincoln Centre, Oakland, c. 1913.

  • Aldine Square

    Aldine Square pictured shortly before its demolition, in 1935.

  • CHA Lake Parc Place Apartments

    One of the six original Lakefront Properties. Named Victor Olander Homes in 1961, it was later renamed Lake Parc Place in 1991.

  • CHA Harsh Apartments

    Harsh Apartments, a senior housing complex in Oakland.

  • Lakefront High-rises

    Three of the four Lake Michigan High-Rises hours prior to demolition, c. 1998.

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