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Indian Village Is the nickname given to the southeast portion of the Kenwood community area of
Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...
, United States. It is roughly bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east Burnham Park to the north, 51st Street (East Hyde Park Boulevard) to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the
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tracks used by the
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's South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the West. Many of the buildings in the neighborhood are named after Native American Indian tribes including the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
-designated (NRHP) Narragansett and the Chicago Landmark Powhatan Apartments. Other buildings include several Algonquin Apartment buildings and the Chippewa.


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The NRHP site of the former
Chicago Beach Hotel The Chicago Beach Hotel was a luxury resort hotel located at 1660 East Hyde Park Boulevard in the Indian Village neighborhood of the Kenwood community area of Chicago, Illinois. History The hotel was built in 1892 by Warren Leland and was ...
that now hosts the
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is also in the neighborhood. The new location of the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue is in this neighborhood.
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, former
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and former 2004 Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, once lived in the 5000 East End Building, which was the tallest building on the
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until 1965. The neighborhood hosts the Powhatan Apartments, the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago. Regents Park's South Tower is the tallest building in the Kenwood community area. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Algonquin Apartments, which are a set of six identical 14-story towers in the neighborhood, and the nearby Chippewa Cooperative Apartments. When the developer altered these projects' glass-enclosed lobby design, Mies asked that his name be dissociated from both. In 1951, they were completed along with the adjacent The Twin Towers Apartments, which originally housed U.S. Army personnel at the Fifth Army Headquarters.


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Official City of Chicago Kenwood Community Map
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