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IL 64 (State Street) North 1st Street — — CR 23 — — CR 30 (West County Line Road) CR 6 (Shabbona Road) Lee Road — — CR 24 — — West DeKalb–Ogle county line (West County Line Road) CR 6 (Rollo Road) Chicago Road — — CR 26 — — IL 72: CR 21 (Cherry Valley Road) Five Points Road — — CR 27 — — IL 23: CR 12 (Somonauk ...
Maxwell Street is an east–west street in Chicago, Illinois, that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road. It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West. [ 1 ]
17-80060. Website. www.westchicago.org. West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 25,614 at the 2020 census. It was formerly named Junction and later Turner Junction, after its founder, John Bice Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) in 1855. [3][4] The city was initially ...
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 Park to the western city ...
While all north–south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side ...
South DuPage–Will county line (87th Street) CR 33 (West 75th Street) Plainfield–Naperville Road. —. —. Southern segment, Plainfield-Naperville Road continues south as Will County Highway 14. CR 1. 3.24.
The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started on the Near West Side. Waves of immigration shaped the history of the Near West Side of Chicago, including the founding of Hull House, a prominent settlement house. [3]
The 7th District Police Station, or Maxwell Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1888 in response to the need for increased police presence in "Bloody Maxwell", known colloquially as "the Wickedest Police District in the World." [2] The neighborhood, a changing melting pot of Irish, German, Italian and European Jewish immigrants ...