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Calumet Park Fieldhouse
Designated as a Chicago landmark on October 4, 2006. Calumet Park Fieldhouse works well as a public foothold for institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 9801 S Avenue G.
- Built: 1922-24.
- Architect: South Park Commission Architects.
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Why It Matters
Calumet Park Fieldhouse keeps a real place attached to institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity.
That public anchor is what allows later work on ownership, alteration, neighborhood setting, and interpretation to build outward in a disciplined way.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Calumet Park Fieldhouse is located at 9801 S Avenue G in the city's landmark record. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1922-24 and credits South Park Commission Architects. It was designated on October 4, 2006. Calumet Park Fieldhouse can be read through institutional planning, community service and public life, and how buildings shaped neighborhood identity without losing sight of the actual site.
Calumet Park Fieldhouse becomes materially clearer through entries, wings, and later additions, yards, courts, or campus relationships, and how the building addresses the street. Seen that way, the landmark helps explain how public or community-serving institutions left long physical traces in the neighborhood.
Research Starting Points
Calumet Park Fieldhouse opens next into board minutes or annual reports, permit records, and photographs, directories, and local coverage. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.
Calumet Park Fieldhouse still needs permits, photographs, and comparison, but the landmark record gives that work a stable point of return.
Public Actions
Campaign / Petition Record
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1922-24
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records Calumet Park Fieldhouse as built in 1922-24.
October 4, 2006
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Calumet Park Fieldhouse as an individual landmark on October 4, 2006.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
Calumet Park Fieldhouse remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Source Trail
City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Calumet Park Fieldhouse
- Location
- 9801 S Avenue G, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 9801 S Avenue G
- Built
- 1922-24
- Architect
- South Park Commission Architects
- Designated
- October 4, 2006
Design / Planning Timeline
South Park Commission Architects
1922-24
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
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