enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Chicago placename etymologies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_placename...

    Named after the Lutheran Chicago Theological Seminary [25] (1890-1908) located at Clark/Addison to Grace/Sheffield. It is located at 3800 north and just north of Wrigley Field. The street is named after a core principal of the Lutheran Reformation and not after Mark Grace (Cubs player 1988-2000). Grand Avenue

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of...

    The North Side is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan, north of North Avenue (1600 N.), and east of the Chicago River — plus the area north of Fullerton Avenue going west of the River and north to the Chicago city limits.

  4. List of Chicago Landmarks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Landmarks

    Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...

  5. Pilsen Historic District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilsen_Historic_District

    The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [2]

  6. List of place names of Dutch origin in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of...

    This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

  7. Rush Street (Chicago) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Street_(Chicago)

    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]

  8. Streets Named After Presidents: By Popularity, Home Prices - AOL

    www.aol.com/.../presidents-most-streets-named-after

    Zillow By Cory Hopkins One of the perks of being president of the United States is that many things are later named in your honor -- schools, libraries, even entire cities. And among the most ...

  9. Old Town, Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town,_Chicago

    Clark Street is a leftover of the culture, being an old road which followed a slight ridge along Lake Michigan. [citation needed] Old Town is the site of many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, as well as St. Michael's Church, originally a Bavarian-built church and one of seven to survive within the boundaries of the Great Chicago ...