| Armour Square | |
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| — Community area — | |
| Community Area 34 - Armour Square | |
| Map of Armour Square | |
| Location within the city of Chicago | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Cook |
| City | Chicago |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 1 sq mi (2.56 km2) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 12,032 |
| • Density | 12,172.9/sq mi (4,700/km2) |
| population up 11.40% from 1990 | |
| Demographics | |
| • White | 17.1% |
| • Black | 17.0% |
| • Hispanic | 3.72% |
| • Asian | 60.7% |
| • Other | 1.42% |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP Codes | parts of 60609 and 60616 |
| Median income | $22,756 |
| Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services | |
Armour Square is both the name of a Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, as well as the larger, officially defined community area that the neighborhood is located in. The Armour Square community area also includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project. The Armour Square area is bordered by Bridgeport to the west and Bronzeville to the east, with Pilsen and the near South Side bordering the area to the north and Fuller Park bordering its southernmost boundary along Pershing Road.
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Bounded by 26th Street to the north, 35th Street to the south, the Union Pacific railroad tracks on the west and the Dan Ryan Expressway to the east, Armour Square has historically been the predominantly white, working class neighborhood with a particularly significant population of both Italian-Americans and Croatian-Americans.[1] With its location being immediately south of Chinatown, today the neighborhood also has a large Asian population as well.[2] Armour Square's most recognizable landmarks are the historic Armour Square Park and nearby US Cellular Field, which sits at the southeast corner of W.35th and Shields Avenue, on the neighborhood's southernmost end. US Cellular is home to the Major League Baseball franchise, the Chicago White Sox. Comiskey Park, the previous ballpark used by the White Sox from 1910 until 1990, was located in what is currently the site of a parking directly across 35th Street from what is US Cellular's main gate today. Comsikey Park was demolished in 1991, but a plaque embedded in the asphalt marks the spot where home plate was on the original field. There are two Catholic parishes in Armour Square: Santa Lucia and St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church.
Chinatown is in the near South Side (located in the Armour Square community area), centered on and around Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.
It is not to be confused with an area sometimes called "New Chinatown", which is on the North Side around Argyle Street, and which has a larger number of Southeast Asians.
Armour Square is served by the Dan Ryan branch of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line, with stops at Cermak-Chinatown and Sox-35th.
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