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Blue Island Avenue is a street in the city of Chicago, Illinois that once led to a ridge of land that early pioneers gave the name "Blue Island" because at a distance it looked like an island in the prairie. The blue color was attributed to atmospheric scattering or to blue flowers growing on the ridge. [1]
Edgewater is a lakefront community area on the North Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois six miles north of the Loop.The most recently established of the city's 77 official community areas, Edgewater is bounded by Foster Avenue on the south, Devon Avenue on the north, Ravenswood Avenue on the west, and Lake Michigan on the east. [2]
Berger Park, officially Park #1255 of the Chicago Park District, is a small (3.34-acre (1.35 ha)) recreational area bordering Lake Michigan in the Edgewater neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois. The park features the historic Downey House and Samuel H. Gunder houses.
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Edgewater Park can refer to a location in the United States: The Edgewater Park Site, an archaeology site in Iowa; Edgewater Park, New Jersey, a township; Edgewater Park (Bronx), New York, a neighborhood; Edgewater Park (Cleveland), a portion of the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation in Ohio; Edgewater Park, Oklahoma, a census ...
Raceway Park (1938–2000) was a quarter-mile stock car race track located in Blue Island, Illinois, on 130th Street and Ashland Avenue between Western Avenue and Halsted Avenue, used for stock car races from the mid-1930s until 2000. In all advertising, it was billed as being located in Blue Island, Illinois, but was really located right ...
The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall [5] and Charles E. Fox.
Big Blue Island is an uninhabited fluvial island in the Illinois River. Approximately 1.5 mile (2.4 km) long, it is legally part of Detroit Township and Flint Township within Pike County in the U.S. state of Illinois . [ 1 ]