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  2. South Shore, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The South Shore Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district contains 229 Chicago bungalows and twenty other residential buildings built between 1911 and 1930. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2008. [11]

  3. Chicago Loop - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's address system has been standardized as beginning at the intersection of State and Madison Streets since September 1, 1909. [75] Prior to that time, Chicago's street system was a hodgepodge of various systems which had resulted from the different municipalities that Chicago annexed in the late 19th century. [75]

  4. Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas - Wikipedia

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    Geographers' A–Z Map Company was the official supplier of atlases and maps for the 2012 Olympic Games and 2012 Paralympic Games and produced detailed maps for the Olympic Park in Stratford, as well as all the other venues that were used during the games in London and throughout the United Kingdom.

  5. Devon Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Devon Avenue / d ɪ ˈ v ɒ n / is a major east-west street in the Chicago metropolitan area. It begins at Chicago's Sheridan Road, which borders Lake Michigan, and it runs west until merging with Higgins Road near O'Hare International Airport. Devon continues on the opposite side of the airport and runs intermittently through Chicago's ...

  6. Multilevel streets in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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 the Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive, which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion. [1]

  7. Windsor Park station - Wikipedia

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    Windsor Park station is a station on the South Chicago Branch of the Metra Electric District Line. It is located at 75th Street in the median of Exchange Avenue and is 10.88 miles (17.51 km) away from the northern terminus at Randolph Street Station. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Windsor Park Station is in Zone 2.

  8. Damen Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Damen Avenue is a street in Chicago, where it is 2000 West in the grid. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of State Street, the city's north–south baseline. Known as Robey Street for politician James Robey prior to 1927, it was renamed in honor of Father Arnold Damen. [1] However, the Robey name is retained in Harvey and Dixmoor as Robey Avenue. [2]

  9. Fulton Market District - Wikipedia

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    A portion of the district (named the Fulton-Randolph Market District) was granted Landmark District status by the City of Chicago in 2015. [2] [3] [4] The landmarked portion of the district is around 74 acres in size. [4] It is served by the CTA's Green and Pink Lines at the Morgan 'L' station, as well as several bus routes. It borders the ...