Woodlawn, Chicago

Woodlawn
Community area
Community Area 42 - Woodlawn
The Strand Hotel, a NRHP listed apartment hotel on Cottage Grove Avenue.
Location within the city of Chicago
Coordinates: 41°46.8′N 87°36′W / 41.7800°N 87.600°W / 41.7800; -87.600
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Neighborhoods	List Woodlawn West Woodlawn Park Manor
Area
• Total	2.07 sq mi (5.36 km2)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	24,425
• Density	12,000/sq mi (4,600/km2)
Demographics 2020[1]
• White	8.2%
• Black	82.3%
• Hispanic	2.9%
• Asian	3.4%
• Other	3.3%
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes	parts of 60637
Median household income 2018	$26,415[1]
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, 60th Street to the north, Martin Luther King Drive to the west, and 67th Street to the south. Both Hyde Park Career Academy and the all-boys Catholic Mount Carmel High School are in this neighborhood; much of its eastern portion is occupied by Jackson Park. The Woodlawn section of the park includes the site of the planned Obama Presidential Center, an estimated $500 million investment.^[2] The northern edge of Woodlawn contains a portion of the campus of the University of Chicago.