Chicago’s Under-the-Radar Icons

Places in this guide

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   West Argyle Street Historic DistrictAsia on Argyle, shaped by Saigon 🌿
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   Brewster ApartmentsChucky's on-screen home 🎬
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   Graceland CemeteryChicago's only integrated white-owned cemetery
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   Alfred Caldwell Lily PoolOnce heated for tropical lilies ❄️
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   Charnley-Persky House MuseumOne of the only Sullivan–Wright collaborations 🏛️
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   International Museum of Surgical ScienceVersailles replica built for a socialite
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   National Public Housing MuseumAmerica's first public housing museum 🏘️
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   Ukrainian National MuseumFounded by displaced Ukrainian scholars
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   National Museum of Mexican ArtAmerica's only accredited Latino museum 🏛️
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    Thalia HallPrague opera house in Pilsen 🎭
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    Ping Tom Memorial ParkTwo generations of Chinatown grew up without parks
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    Stony Island Arts BankFrankie Knuckles' vinyl collection lives here 🎵
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    Garden of the PhoenixThis garden was nearly a zoo 🦁
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    Chicago Pile-1 Plot MWorld's first nuclear reactor buried here ☢️
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    A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter MuseumFirst Black labor history museum ✊
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    Calumet FisheriesOne of Chicago's last wood-smoking fish houses 🐟