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The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square 26th Street in Little Village A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.
A scattering of diagonal streets, many of them originally Native American trails [citation needed], also cross the city. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, a network of superhighways was built radiating from the city center.
The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes. Census data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of urban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing comparisons of statistics across ...
Damen Avenue. Dearborn Street. DeKoven Street. Dempster Street. Devon Avenue. Diversey Parkway (Chicago) Division Street (Chicago)
Multilevel streets in Chicago. 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker stand on East Wacker Drive just west of Michigan Avenue and the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of ...
The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.Home to Chicago's commercial core, it is the second largest commercial business district in North America after Midtown Manhattan in New York City [citation needed], and contains the headquarters and regional offices of several global and national ...
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 ]
Near South Side, Chicago. / 41.85667°N 87.62472°W / 41.85667; -87.62472. The Near South Side is a community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, just south of the downtown central business district, the Loop. The Near South Side's boundaries [ 3] are as follows: North—Roosevelt Road (1200 S); South—26th Street; West ...