Bronzeville
Bronzeville is a neighborhood in the Grand Boulevard community. James J. Gentry, a local theater editor for The Chicago Bee publication, started using the name to refer to the brown skin color of African-Americans, who predominated in that area. It is known as the “Black Metropolis,” and one of the nation’s most significant landmarks of urban African-American history. Civil rights activist, Ida B. Wells and legendary singers Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, and Louis Armstrong came from this community. Its boundaries are 35th Street (NW), Pershing Road (NE), 51st Street (S), South Drexel Boulevard (E), and State Street (W). Zip Code(s) 60609, 60615, 60616, and 60653