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West Argyle Street Historic District (also known as Little Saigon, [1] New Chinatown, and Asia on Argyle) is a historic district in northern Uptown, Chicago, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 2010.
The Cleveland Park Historical Society, founded 1985, strives to document and preserve the history and architecture of the neighborhood, and especially the historic district, which was designated in 1987. The Society sponsors an annual house tour in the neighborhood.
Rush Street is a one-way street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.The street, which starts at the Chicago River between Wabash and North Michigan Avenues, runs directly north until it slants on a diagonal as it crosses Chicago Avenue then it continues to Cedar and State Streets, making it slightly less than a mile long. [1]
Lincoln Avenue hosts a few CTA bus routes and one Pace bus route. 11 Lincoln is a CTA bus route that primarily travels along Lincoln Avenue as well as Kedzie Avenue , running from Western station on the Brown Line to a bus turnaround adjacent to the North Shore Channel Trail at Howard Street/McCormick Boulevard.
Division Street is a major east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, located at 1200 North (one and a half miles north of Madison Street).Division Street begins in the Gold Coast neighborhood near Lake Shore Drive, passes through Polonia Triangle at Milwaukee Avenue into Wicker Park and continues to Chicago's city limits and into the city's western suburbs.
The North Wells Street Historic District is a commercial historic district located on the west side of the 1200 block of North Wells Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district consists of seven buildings: four stores, two factories, and a firehouse. Built from 1871 to 1888, the buildings are an unusually ...
It divides the Hyde Park community area to the north from the Woodlawn community area to the south. Near Lake Michigan, the Midway is about 6 miles (10 km) south of the downtown "Loop". The University of Chicago was founded just north of the park, and university buildings now front the Midway to the south, as well.
It was financed by the Brauer family of Chicago, who worked in the restaurant business, and was one of the most popular restaurants in Chicago during the early twentieth century. [2] Caspar Brauer, who died at age 68 on April 29, 1940, was the longtime proprietor of Café Brauer. [3] The original restaurant closed in the 1940s. [2]