Chicago’s Culture Coast

Experience the thriving arts and cultural communities along Chicago’s culture coast south of the city along the beautiful Lake Michigan coast. Artistic innovation is at the heart of the Hyde Park, Bronzeville, and Woodlawn neighborhoods. From jazz great Herbie Hancock to Chicago Imagist painter Ed Paschke and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, generations of visual artists, writers, musicians, performers and great thinkers have drawn inspiration here.

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