West Lawn

West Lawn may refer to a place in the United States:

  • West Lawn, Chicago, Illinois, a neighborhood
  • West Lawn, Pennsylvania, a former borough

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or lawn:

    “Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa.... We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bought them; white people changed their names ... my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”
    —Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

    “Once our idea of heaven meant
    all the dead relatives waiting
    on the kept lawn of the many mansions
    as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing
    to do. ...”
    —Deborah Digges (b. 1950)