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While all north–south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side ...
Pages in category "Streets in Chicago" ... Roads and expressways in Chicago * List of Chicago placename etymologies; 0–9. 1st Avenue (Chicago) 95th Street (Chicago)
The Jane Byrne Interchange (until 2014, Circle Interchange) is a major freeway interchange near downtown Chicago, Illinois, known locally as "The Lady in the Middle".It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways (I-90/I-94 and I-290), and Ida B. Wells Drive. [1]
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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]
The John F. Kennedy Expressway is a nearly 18-mile-long (29 km) freeway in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Portions of the freeway carry I-190, I-90 and I-94.The freeway runs in a southeast–northwest direction between the central city neighborhood of the West Loop and O'Hare International Airport.
I-94 Dan Ryan Expressway Reconstruction Construction Engineering, Chicago, Illinois; Interstate 94 (I-94) North-South Freeway Project Construction Inspection, Southeast Wisconsin [19] Marquette Interchange Construction Inspection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mitchell Interchange Construction Inspection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [20]
An expressway along the alignment of the Eisenhower Expressway was foreshadowed by Daniel Burnham's plan of 1909, which described a west side boulevard. Use of the automobile boomed in the 1920s, leading to extreme traffic on Chicago's west side and the first serious plans of an expressway by Congress Street in the early 1930s.