Dearborn Street is a street in Chicago, where it is 36 W in its grid system. It is the street immediately to the west of
State Street State Street may refer to:
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, the city's north–south baseline.
Dearborn Street appears on
James Thompson's 1830
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bear ...
of Chicago, and was named for being the closest named north–south street to
Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed by troops under Captain John Whistler and named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War. ...
.
The
Dearborn Street Bridge
The Dearborn Street Bridge over the Chicago River was built in 1962. It connects the Near North Side with " The Loop." The American Institute of Steel Construction
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) is a not-for-profit tec ...
carries the street across the
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop). Though not especially long, the river is notable because it is one of the reasons for ...
.
Dearborn station
Dearborn Station (also referred to as Polk Street Depot) was, beginning in the late 1800s, one of six intercity train stations serving downtown Chicago, Illinois. It remained in operation until May 1, 1971. Built in 1883, it is located at ...
formerly served inter-city trains. The
Milwaukee-Dearborn subway underlies the street downtown.
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Streets in Chicago
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