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Bronzeville
Garfield Park
6 9
Conservatory
MAP C5 • “L” station:
35th-Bronzeville-IIT (Green line) MAP B5 • 300 N. Central Park Ave.
A bronze memorial at Martin • “L” station: Conservatory-Central
Luther King, Jr. Drive and 35th Park Dr. (Green line) • 312-746-5100
Street honors the journey many • Open 9am–5pm daily (to 8pm Wed)
African-Americans made to this • DA • www.garfield-conservatory.org
neighborhood as they fled the Beneath glass-domed roofs, flora
oppression of the South in the early from around the world thrives in
20th century. Nearby, sidewalk spacious greenhouses. Information
plaques celebrate local luminaries. panels give the lowdown as you stroll
Bronzeville is Chicago’s answer to through six indoor areas that include
Harlem and offers jazz and blues a Children’s Garden and the Sweet
in its clubs, graceful mansions House (containing plants such as
aplenty, and lots of fine soul food. cacao and sugar cane). Two grand
exhibition halls host special events.
Hemingway Birthplace
7
MAP A5 • “L” station: Oak Park
• 1-708-524-5383 • Open 1–5pm
Sun–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat • Adm
• www.ehfop.org
Oak Park (see pp36–7) is well known
as the first professional home of
architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and for
the concentration of Wright-designed
buildings he left behind. But Oak
Park was also home to a young
Ernest Hemingway; the author’s
birthplace is open for tours.
Illinois Institute of
8 Garfield Park Conservatory
Technology (IIT)
Pullman National
MAP C5 • 3300 S. Federal St. • “L” 0
station: 35th-Bronzeville-IIT (Green Monument
line) • 312-567-3000 • Tours: www. MAP B6 • Metra Station: Pullman/
miessociety.org/home/tours • DA 111th St. • Visitors’ Center: 11141 S.
In 1940, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Cottage Grove Ave., open 11am–3pm
planned the campus of this new Tue–Sun • 1-773-785-8901 • DA
university. He also designed Named a National Monument in 2015,
around 20 of the buildings, which this industrial town was conceived in
demon strate his design philosophies. the 1880s by railroad magnate George
On arrival, stop by the on-campus Pullman for his workers. The planned
visitor center for information and utopia had apartments, shops, a
docent- or iPod-guided tours. hospital, and a hotel, but failed after
a strike in 1894, when a decrease in
lllinois Institute of Technology wages made rents unaffordable.

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