Chicago Avenue is a major east–west street in
Chicago
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, Illinois that runs at 800 north from 385 east to 5968 west in the
Chicago street address system from which point it enters the suburbs and goes into several different suburban address systems.
[Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Chicago Avenue", p. 22., Loyola University Press, 1988, ] It originates at the shores of
Lake Michigan
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and
Lake Shore Drive
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(
U.S. Route 41
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) in the
Gold Coast
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** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
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neighborhood in the
Near North Side community area of
Chicago
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in
Cook County
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,
Illinois
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, United States, and runs west to 17th Avenue, where it terminates a few feet north of
Lake Street in
Melrose Park, IL. This is a distance of approximately .
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estimate.
Route description
Chicago Avenue has two lanes west of
Austin Avenue, and the Chicago city limits, and roughly four lanes east of Austin Avenue. Like most streets in Chicago, the number and width of lanes varies block by block.
Chicago Avenue runs just to the north of
Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park. It then runs through
Maywood and over the
Des Plaines River
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before entering
River Forest. Chicago Avenue is largely residential through River Forest and Oak Park, with a few small commercial strip malls and developments.
At Austin Avenue, Chicago Avenue becomes part of the addressing system for Chicago as 800 North, or 8 blocks (one mile) north of
Madison Street. Chicago Avenue runs through the largely impoverished
Austin
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and
Humboldt Park neighborhoods. In the late 1940s and early 1950s at Chicago and Clark Streets, it was home to the first Puerto Rican immigrants to Chicago. They called the area:"La Clark." East of about
Kedzie Avenue
Kedzie Avenue is a major north–south street in Chicago, Illinois.
Both Kedzie streets in Chicago and suburban Evanston are named after John H. Kedzie, an early Chicago real-estate developer. Kedzie Avenue extends more than from the southern ...
, Chicago Avenue runs through the
West Town and
Near North Side areas.
Transportation
Chicago Avenue is primarily served by the 66 Chicago between Fairbanks Court and Austin Avenue.
The following CTA Lines have stations at Chicago Avenue:
*
Brown Line/
Purple Line Express at
Franklin Street
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Red Line at
State Street
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Blue Line at
Milwaukee Avenue
References
{{Streets in Chicago
Streets in Chicago