Printer's Row, Chicago
Printers Row,
Many of the buildings in this area were used by
Buildings
Buildings in the neighborhood include the M.A. Donohue & Co. Building at Plymouth Court and Polk Street, and the red brick and polychromatic tile Franklin Building. It features painted tile depictions of printing tradesmen such as a bookbinder and typesetter as well as a painted tile mural of the "first impression" of the Gutenberg Bible.
When Ida B. Wells Drive, then known as Congress Parkway, was extended west between 1949 and 1952 through the area, it separated what is now the historic buildings of the Printing House Row District from those of the South Loop Printing House District.[3]
Education
Printers Row is zoned to the following
The area is also a student-oriented center with the University Center of Chicago (UCC), housing over 3,000 college students in dorm and apartment style units, as well as Dwight Lofts and 731 South Plymouth Court, two student housing buildings owned by
Transportation
Printers Row is served by the
Festivals
The annual Printers Row Literary Festival, "Lit Fest", is held in early June along Dearborn Street.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Printers Row neighborhood guide". 27 June 2018.
- ^ "Printer's Row". The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society. 2005.
- ^ "Buildings No Barrier to Chicago's Congress Street Superhighway". Civil Engineering. January 1954. p. 37.
- ^ "Printers Row Lit Fest". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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