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  2. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...

  3. Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    January 30, 1978 [1] The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire. In 1882, millionaire Potter Palmer ...

  4. North Shore Channel - Wikipedia

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    North Branch Chicago River. The North Shore Channel is a drainage canal built between 1907 and 1910 to flush the sewage-filled North Branch of the Chicago River down the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. [1] The sewage carrying duty has been largely taken over by the Chicago Deep Tunnel, but there are still occasional discharges due to heavy rains.

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side ...

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    There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois . The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, to the ...

  6. Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service over an 88.9-mile (143.1 km) route between the Chicago Loop and downtown Milwaukee, as well as an 8.6-mile (13.8 km) branch line between the villages of Lake Bluff and Mundelein, Illinois.

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side ...

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    3600 N. Halsted Street. 41°56′51″N 87°38′58″W  /  41.9474433°N 87.6495186°W  / 41.9474433; -87.6495186  (42nd Precinct Police Station) Lake View. Former Chicago Police Station and Lake View Town Hall. 2. Alta Vista Terrace Historic District. Alta Vista Terrace Historic District. More images. March 16, 1972.

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