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Overton Hygienic Building, Chicago

Built by the wildly successful African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton to house the headquarters of his nation-wide cosmetics franchise.

Built by the wildly successful African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton to house the headquarters of his nation-wide cosmetics franchise. The building housed several of his other businesses, including Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, America's first national African-American bank. The building is now owned by the Mid-South Planning and Development Commission. Just across the street from the now demolished, notorious Robert Taylor Homes, the formerly beautiful art-deco building is in a sad state of disrepair.


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About Overton Hygienic Building

 3647 South State Street, Chicago, IL, United States

 +1 312-747-6872

Overton Hygienic Building and Nearby Sights on Map

Chicago Bee Building

The home of the Chicago Bee Newspaper, which was founded by Anthony Overton to promote black businesses and issues

Wabash Avenue YMCA

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S.R. Crown Hall

A major architectural landmark, designed by none other than Mies van der Rohe

South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC)

A community arts center open since 1940, which was for long the only place around where minority artists could exhibit there work

Kemper Room Art Gallery

An art exhibit specializing in late-modern and contemporary art

Chicago Defender Building

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Eighth Regiment Armory

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U.S. Cellular Field

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Ida B. Wells House

The home of Ida B Wells, prominent African-American civil rights activist and suffragette, founder of the Black Women's movement, and founding member of the NAACP, lived here from 1919–1929

Sunset Cafe

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