Prairie Avenue, Chicago
The Prairie Avenue Historic District includes the 1800 and 1900 blocks of South Prairie, the 1800 block of South Indiana and 211 through 217 East Cullerton.
The Prairie Avenue Historic District includes the 1800 and 1900 blocks of South Prairie, the 1800 block of South Indiana and 211 through 217 East Cullerton. Neighborhood tours are led by the Glessner House Museum a few times each year. If you happen to be in the area on Halloween, move heaven and earth to join the evening ghost tour, which roams through the Glessner House, meeting a magician a few times along the way, and then heads out to the wonderfully spooky street for a walking tour.
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About Prairie Avenue
Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
Prairie Avenue and Nearby Sights on Map
The Glessner House Museum
A stately Arts & Crafts mansion from 1887, now fully restored and refurnished to its original Gilded Age atmosphere
The Clarke House Museum
Built in 1836, this unassuming little white house is the oldest surviving structure in Chicago
Second Presbyterian Church
Windows designed by Louis Tiffany and other stained-glass masters for a proudly diverse congregation
Blues Heaven Foundation
A major blues hotspot where Muddy Waters, Ahmad Jamal, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Bo Diddley, Etta James, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Ramsey Lewis, and many other greats recorded during Chicago's bluesiest period
McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Architectural landmark, distinguished by the wild L tunnel on top - the first building in the U
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is the home of the Chicago Bears
Hilliard Homes
In the architecture of these massive public housing projects lies the South Side's tongue-in-cheek answer to the North Side's Marina City - in fact, they were built by the same architect, Bertrand Goldberg
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
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Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is one of the largest of its kind in the world, with a collection of over 24 million specimens and objects spanning from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures around the world
Arie Crown Theater
Comfortable sit-down music venue in the midst of McCormick Place