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Refers to the sparrows who fed in the stockyards and railroad cars in the late 19th century. The name may also refer to youth gangs in the neighborhood, who were known as "wild canaries". [9] Central Park Avenue: Refers to the original name of Garfield Park. Cermak Road: Slain Chicago mayor Anton Cermak (formerly 22nd Street) Chicago River
1800 N. Clybourn was a shopping center located at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave. in the Clybourn Corridor area of Lincoln Park, Chicago. The building was once the William D. Gibson spring factory, [1] and later a plant for making Turtle Wax. It was converted to a three-level enclosed specialty shopping center that retained the structure's wood beams and ...
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Chicago is traditionally divided into the three "sides" of the North Side, West Side, and South Side by the Chicago River. These three sides are represented by the white stripes on the Flag of Chicago. [12] The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times ...
The Old Chicago Water Tower District is located along Michigan Avenue where Streeterville meets the border of the River North and Gold Coast (Chicago) neighborhoods at Chicago Avenue. The Water Tower District contains the only public buildings that survived the 1871 Great Chicago Fire . [ 26 ]
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]
Ogden Avenue is a street extending from the Near West Side of Chicago to Montgomery, Illinois.It was named for William B. Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago.. The street follows the route of the Southwestern Plank Road, a plank road opened in 1848 across swampy terrain between Chicago and Riverside, Illinois, and, by 1851, extended to Naperville.
South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.