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  2. Ida B. Wells Drive - Wikipedia

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    Downtown, Congress Street was only two-blocks-long, platted in 1848 as 5th street, which ran from State Street east to Michigan Avenue. [citation needed] In the late 1920s, the U.S. Post Office Department chose a site for Chicago's main post office that would block any future such boulevard. Bennett and the Chicago Plan Commission objected. [2]

  3. U.S. Route 222 Business (Reading, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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    The business route crosses the Schuylkill River and becomes Bingaman Street. US 222 Bus. turns north on 5th Street and intersects US 422 Bus. in downtown Reading and the southern terminus of PA 61 to the north of downtown. The route interchanges with the PA 12 freeway and continues north through suburban Muhlenberg Township as 5th

  4. Hotel Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    The Hotel Abraham Lincoln is a historic building and former hotel in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. Opened on May 23, 1930, the Lincoln was one of Reading's original nine grand hotels. The hotel was the last of the grand hotels to cease operations, doing so on November 1, 2016. [1]

  5. Uber opens new office in Old Post Office, making Chicago the ...

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    The San Francisco-based ride-share company cut the ribbon on its ninth-floor office Tuesday, with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and other top executives touting a new home and expansive ...

  6. Reading, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.

  7. Category:Streets in Reading, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Streets in Reading, Pennsylvania" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... 5th Street (Reading) C. Centre Avenue (Reading) F.

  8. Railway Mail Service - Wikipedia

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    By 1907, over 14,000 clerks were providing service over 203,000 miles (327,000 km) of railroad. When the post office began handling parcel post in 1913, Terminal Railway Post Office operations were established in major cities by the RMS to handle the large increase in mail volume. The Railway Mail Service reached its peak in the 1920s, then ...

  9. Old Chicago Main Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...