What is Douglas, Chicago?
'''Douglas''', on the [[South Side, Chicago|South Side]] of [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], is one of 77 Chicago community areas. The neighborhood is named for [[Stephen A. Douglas]], an Illinois politician, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Callary|first=Edward|title=Place Names of Illinois|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvHgwa-XImcC&pg=PA97|date=29 September 2008|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-09070-7|page=97}}</ref> [[Camp Douglas (Chicago)|Camp Douglas]], a [[Civil War]] camp, was located in what is now the eastern portion of the Douglas neighborhood. Douglas gave that part of his estate at Cottage Grove and 35th to the [[University of Chicago|Old University of Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1448.html | title=Old University of Chicago | year=2005 }}</ref> The [[Chicago 2016 Olympic bid]] planned for the [[Olympic Village]] to be constructed on a {{convert|37|acre|m2|adj=on}} truck parking lot south of [[McCormick Place]] that is mostly in the Douglas [[Community areas of Chicago|community area]] and partly in the [[Near South Side, Chicago|Near South Side]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=22191|access-date=April 2, 2007|author=Hinz, Greg|title=Plan for 2016 Olympics disclosed|publisher=Crain Communications, Inc.|date=2006-09-23}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Community areas of Chicago}} [[Category:Community areas of Chicago]] {{US-geo-stub}}