About Chicago Defender Building
Chicago Defender Building is a sight (Historic sites) in Chicago, in the Douglas district. The address is 3435 S Indiana Ave, 60616 Chicago. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +13122252400. Just around the corner: Taurus Flavors (restaurant, 71 m) and National Museum of Gospel Music (museum, 298 m).
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- Sight › Historic sites
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- Address
- 3435 S Indiana Ave
60616 Chicago, USA - District
- Douglas
- Phone
- +13122252400
- Website
- en.wikipedia.org
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- Coordinates
- 41.83184° N · -87.62164° E
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- ID 73a85598-7b5…
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Built in 1899 as a synagogue, this building housed the Chicago Defender (the nation's foremost African-American newspaper through World War I) from 1920-1960. The Chicago Defender published works by Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, and is largely credited for starting the Great Migration in its exhortations to southern blacks to move to the North for greater economic opportunities and freedom. The building is oddly vacant and neglected and may be available for sale.
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