Chicago Bee Building

Coordinates: 41°49′40.94″N 87°37′34.26″W / 41.8280389°N 87.6261833°W / 41.8280389; -87.6261833
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Chicago Bee Building
Chicago Landmark
MPS
Black Metropolis TR
NRHP reference No.86001090 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 30, 1986
Designated CLSeptember 9, 1998

The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's

Chicago, Illinois
.

The Chicago Bee was founded by the African American entrepreneur

Overton Hygienic Company
, during the 1930s. The Overton Hygienic Company was nationally known as a cosmetics firm.

Overton Hygienic went out of business in the early 1980s. In the mid-1990s, the building was reused as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986.

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Notes

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Chicago Bee Building". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. Archived from the original on April 28, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2007.
  3. ^ "Chicago Bee Branch". Chicago Public Library. October 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2007.

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