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The name may also refer to youth gangs in the neighborhood, who were known as "wild canaries". [9] Central Park Avenue: Refers to the original name of Garfield Park. Cermak Road: Slain Chicago mayor Anton Cermak (formerly 22nd Street) Chicago River: A French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning wild leek. [10] [11] [12 ...
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 ...
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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.
The name Crawford Avenue lasted until 1935 when, over local opposition and a legal battle all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, the street was renamed for Pulaski. [1] Among the many Polish city leaders who worked to achieve "Pulaski Road" was Emilia Napieralska, the president of the Chicago chapter of the Polish Women's Alliance of America.
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 Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive , which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion. [ 1 ]
The median value of the more than 17,000 U.S. homes located on a Coolidge street is $176,330, the only presidential street with national median home values higher than the December 2013 national ...
Streets in Brussels often have a Dutch name and a French name, both languages being official: for example "Bergstraat" (Dutch) and "Rue de la Montagne" (French), both meaning "Mountain Street". While the older streets were originally named in Dutch and calqued into French, some more recent ones, conceived in French, have been calqued into Dutch.