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A scattering of diagonal streets, many of them originally Native American trails [citation needed], also cross the city. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, a network of superhighways was built radiating from the city center.
The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago coauthored by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and published in 1909. It recommended an integrated series of projects including new and widened streets, parks, new railroad and harbor facilities, and civic buildings. Though only portions of the plan were realized, the document ...
Near North Side, Chicago. / 41.90000°N 87.63444°W / 41.90000; -87.63444. The Near North Side is the eighth of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is the northernmost of the three areas that constitute central Chicago, the others being the Loop and the Near South Side. The community area is located north and east of the Chicago River.
Multilevel streets in Chicago. 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker stand on East Wacker Drive just west of Michigan Avenue and the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of ...
Location. In Chicago's grid system, Halsted Street marks 800 West, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of State Street, from Grace Street (3800 N) in Lakeview south to the city limits at the Little Calumet River (13000 S) in West Pullman, a length of 168 north-south Chicago blocks. (From Grace north to Lawrence Avenue (4800 N) in Uptown, 800 W is marked by ...
North end. Broadway in Chicago. Racine Avenue is a street in Chicago, in whose grid system it is 1200 W. It is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of State Street, the baseline of the grid. Racine Avenue was previously designated as Center Avenue south of the North Branch Chicago River; [1] however, most of the south suburbs retained the old name.
Roosevelt Road looking East. Roosevelt Road (originally named 12th Street) is a major east-west street in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs. It is 1200 South in the city's street numbering system, but [a] only 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Madison Street. It runs under this name from Columbus Drive at the southern end of Grant ...
Chicago's streets were laid out in a street grid that grew from the city's original townsite plot, which was bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, North Avenue on the north, Wood Street on the west, and 22nd Street on the south. [117] Streets following the Public Land Survey System section lines later became arterial streets in outlying ...