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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.
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, is an urban hospital located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a 236-bed hospital, [1] located on the site of what used to be Clarendon Beach, a popular beach of the city. Until the 2000s, Weiss Hospital had been part of the University of Chicago Hospitals system. [2]
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 first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
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.
The community covers an area of about 41 acres (0.17 km 2); its rough boundaries are N. Glenwood Ave to the west, Winona Street to the north, Sheridan Road to the east, and Ainslie Street to the south. It was home to the Essanay Studios in the 1920s, known for the movies it made with Charlie Chaplin. Essanay Studios now is home to St. Augustine ...
The venue served as the opening night on Miley Cyrus' Milky Milky Milk Tour which was a very limited tour with only 8 cities across North America. The show sold out within a few minutes with one fixed price of US$69.69. Chlöe performed at the theatre on April 11, 2023 for the opening night of her highly-anticipated In Pieces Tour.
The Colvin House is a house at 5940 North Sheridan Road in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1909 in the Prairie Style by George W. Maher. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 5, 1994. [1] This residence was built for Edwin M. Colvin, his wife Clara and their four children.