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Printers Row, also known as Printing House Row, is a neighborhood located in the south of the

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downtown area known as the

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. The heart of Printers Row is generally defined by Ida B. Wells Drive on the north, Polk Street on the south, Plymouth Court on the east, and the

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on the west. This neighborhood overlaps significantly with the officially designated landmark Printing House Row District to the north of Ida B Wells Drive and the South Loop Printing House District to the south of the Drive. The neighborhood includes Dearborn Station, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. Many of the buildings in this area were used by printing and publisher, publishing businesses. Today, the buildings have mainly been converted into residential lofts with the last remaining printer, Palmer Printing, Inc., near the corner of Clark and Polk streets, selling to residential developers in early 2018.

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 (Chicago), 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.

Education

Printers Row is zoned to the following Chicago Public Schools campuses: South Loop School and Phillips Academy High School. The campus of Jones College Prep High School is also located near printers row at 700 S State Street. 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 Columbia College Chicago. Colleges in the area include Roosevelt University, Columbia College, Robert Morris University (Illinois), Robert Morris University, UIC John Marshall Law School, UIC Law School, and the Chicago Loop, Loop campus of DePaul University.

Transportation

Printers Row is served by the Harrison station (CTA), Harrison Station on the Chicago Transit Authority, CTA's Red Line (Chicago Transit Authority), Red Line, as well as LaSalle station (CTA), LaSalle Station on the Blue Line (CTA), Blue Line.

Festivals

The annual Printers Row Lit Fest, Printers Row Literary Festival, "Lit Fest", is held in early June along Dearborn Street.

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External links

Printers Row, Chicago
at City-Data
Official City of Chicago Loop Community Map
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