North Lawndale, Chicago

United States

North Lawndale, Chicago shares 21 connections with 5519 other places across 10 topics, spanning industry, history, government, and music. Its strongest ties are with Chicago, Illinois, though many connections also reach New York City and West Side, Chicago. The neighborhood held the greatest concentration of greystones in the city, drew Jewish residents leaving the Maxwell Street ghetto by the 1920s, and was home to Dinah Washington. Andrea Jenkins, the first Black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States, grew up here.