- Calumet Heights, Chicago
Calumet Heights, located on the South Side of the city, is one of the 77 well defined community areas of
Chicago, Illinois . Calumet Heights is bounded by 87th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along 95th Street). It includes theneighborhoods of Calumet Heights and Pill Hill. Beginning at about 91st Street and Constance Avenue is the geographical feature for which it was named, a stony hill that was once anisland when glacialLake Chicago covered the area thousands of years ago. Early pioneers gave this hill the name Stony Island because at a distance it looked like an island in set a tracklessprairie sea. (See also the nearbyBlue Island ).External links
* [http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/Community_Areas_CALUMET_HEIGHTS.pdf Official City of Chicago Calumet Heights Community Map]
Geographic Location 2
Center =Calumet Heights, Chicago
North =Avalon Park, Chicago
ENE =South Chicago, Chicago
South =South Deering, Chicago
West =Burnside, Chicago
Northwest =Chatham, Chicago
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