The Former Chicago Commons Building (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / West Grand Avenue, 955
 school, shelter, community centre / hall
Located at 955 W. Grand Ave (at Morgan), the Chicago Commons was a settlement house founded in 1894 to provided housing, schooling, and care for local immigrants in the (now called) West Town neighborhood, being modeled off of Jane Adam's Hull House. It even held one of the first kindergartens in the U.S. This building dates to 1901 and was built by Pond & Pond. It contained boarding rooms, classrooms, a gymnasium, a library and many other facilities. The Chicago Commons as an organization still exists in the city, but they stopped operating out of this location in the 1948 when plans for building the Kennedy Expressway immediately north and east of the building began.

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Coordinates:   41°53'26"N   87°39'6"W
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