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Kenwood (Chicago, Illinois)

Community Area 39 - Kenwood Location within the city of Chicago
Latitude Longitude	41°48.6′N 87°36.0′W
Neighborhoods	Kenwood
ZIP Code	parts of 60615 and 60653
Area	2.82 km² (1.09 mi²)
Population (2000) Density	18,363 (up 1.02% from 1990) 6,504.6 /km²
Demographics	White Black Hispanic Asian Other	15.9% 75.7% 1.64% 4.27% 2.52%
Median income	$43,728
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

Kenwood, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the official Chicago Community Areas.

Kenwood boasts some of the largest homes in the city, including the residences of Louis Farrakhan and Barack Obama. According to the City of Chicago historical signs found on streetlights throughout the neighborhood, Kenwood was once one of the most elite neighborhoods in all of Chicago. Famous murderers Leopold and Loeb lived in Kenwood, as did their victim Bobby Franks.

Kenwood neigborhood's buildings as seen from Promontory Point

Front of Blackstone Library

Kenwood is bisected by 47th Street, which marks a dramatic socio-cultural and architectural boundary. North Kenwood suffered significant depopulation and attendant decline of the housing stock and retail base, bottoming out around 1990, although the area has been gradually redeveloping since then. South Kenwood fared this period rather better, escaping middle-class flight in the 1970s due to the efforts of the Kenwood Open House Committee to have the area zoned single-family homes only, halting a trend then underway to apartment and rooming-house conversion. In the real estate boom of the mid-2000s, houses sold for in excess of two million dollars, and long vacant lots were redeveloped with high-end luxury houses.

On the southern end of Kenwood between Woodlawn and Dorchester, is the small private park Madison Park (Chicago). Madison Park is one of only three remaining private parks in the City of Chicago.

It was once part of the old Hyde Park Township that voted to be annexed by the City of Chicago in 1889. Among its most famous structures is the Blackstone Library built in 1902 that continues to be part of the Chicago Public Library system.

The tallest building in Kenwood is the South Tower of Regents Park.

• Official City of Chicago Kenwood Community Map

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