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A suburban extension of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s. [4] In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan, [5] a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire.
Roughly bounded by N. Sheridan Road, W. Ainslie Street, N. Broadway, and W. Winona Street; also N. Broadway & E. block face of N. Sheridan Road between W. Argyle Street & W. Winona Avenue 41°58′24″N 87°39′28″W / 41.9733°N 87.657789°W / 41.9733; -87.657789 ( West Argyle Street Historic
The hotel was the first high-rise building in Uptown. The Chicago Cubs and visiting teams that played the Cubs stayed in the hotel; [2] the building was also a popular site for weddings and dances. [3] After the hotel closed, the building sat vacant and deteriorated significantly, and some of the terra cotta decorations fell off the side of the ...
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.
Illinois Route 137 (IL 137) is a 23.49-mile-long (37.80 km) state highway in northeast Illinois.It runs from the Wisconsin state line north of Winthrop Harbor south to North Chicago, west to Libertyville, and then back northwest to Grayslake, terminating at IL 83 just south of IL 120.
[6] [20] Due to the changing nature of the Rogers Park neighborhood, the house now stands among commercial properties and apartment buildings on a busy city street (North Sheridan Road). [6] The Bach House includes walnut decorations, even though it was built during World War I, when the United States Army managed the nation's supply of walnut ...
Edgewater was a suburb of Chicago, relatively rural until John Lewis Cochran developed land for lakefront homes in 1885. Four years later, the town was annexed by Chicago. Cochran prohibited the construction of apartment buildings along Sheridan Road, and this plan was continued until the 1940s. The two houses in Berger Park were part of ...
Big Chicks is a gay bar and neighborhood restaurant that opened in 1986 in Uptown, Chicago. [1] It serves a diverse group of LGBT people, straight people and people in the kink community. The owner of the establishment is Michelle Fire. The restaurant next door, Tweet, is also owned by Fire and provides food to Big Chicks.