Woodlawn Chicago 60637
Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago’s 77 community areas. It is bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, 60th Street to the north, Martin Luther King Drive to the west, and 67th Street to the south.
The University of Chicago is big on Woodawn’s future with new dormitories, conference centers, and even a new hotel. Woodlawn is home to the Barack Obama Presidential Center.
Woodlawn today is a neighborhood on the rise – where new and renovated mixed-income and market-rate housing, schools, restaurants, and retail stores are filling in historic boulevards and strengthening the vibrancy of this community.
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Woodlawn sits very close to Lake Michigan. Its main attractions are the very popular landmarked 63rd Street Bathing Pavilion that serves as the signature indoor portion of the beach and Jackson Park. This park was designed by the same person who designed New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted.
Jackson Park is a 500-acre (2 km²) park on Lake Michigan in the neighborhoods of Woodlawn, Hyde Park, and bordering South Shore.
Attractions inside Jackson Park include Osaka Garden, the Jackson Park Golf Course, Jackson Park Harbor, Wooded Isle, the gilded Daniel Chester French statue Republic (a replica of a much larger statue built for the Columbian Exposition), several lagoons, and the 63rd Street Beach with its magnificent beach house.
