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Ohio Street is a major east–west one-way street in downtown Chicago. From west to east, it runs from an interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90) and I-94 , also known as the Kennedy Expressway , to U.S. Route 41 (US 41), also known as Lake Shore Drive , just west of Lake Michigan .
Dearborn Street is a street in Chicago, where it is 36 W in its grid system. It is the street immediately to the west of State Street , the city's north–south baseline. Dearborn Street appears on James Thompson 's 1830 plat of Chicago, and was named for being the closest named north–south street to Fort Dearborn .
The pattern is a historical relic of a 1913 street-naming proposal, by which streets were to be systematically named according to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana border; K, the eleventh letter, was to be assigned to streets within the eleventh mile, counting west from the state line.
State Street is a large south-north street, also one of the main streets, in Chicago, Illinois, USA and its south suburbs. Its intersection with Madison Street ( 41°52′55″N 87°37′40″W / 41.8820°N 87.6278°W / 41.8820; -87.6278 ) has marked the origin for Chicago's address system since 1909
Elected U.S. Senator from Illinois and resigned his state senate seat in 2004. Vacant: November 4, 2004 – November 6, 2004 93rd Kwame Raoul: Democratic: November 6, 2004 – January 5, 2019 93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th Appointed in 2004 Elected in 2006 Re-elected in 2010 Re-elected in 2012 Re-elected in 2016 Elected Illinois ...
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 .
Ida B. Wells Drive, formerly called Congress Parkway, was proposed in the 1909 Plan of Chicago as the central axis of the replanned city. The plan's authors, Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, proposed a broad new boulevard on the line of Congress Street that would cut through the long blocks between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, connecting a cultural center of new buildings in Grant Park ...
Sheffield Avenue is a north–south street in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known to sports fans as being the street just beyond the right-field bleachers of Wrigley Field . Sheffield Avenue begins at the intersection with West Weed Street, immediately adjacent to Weed's intersection with North Kingsbury Street.