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State Street (approx. 1900 South) 41°51′23″N 87°37′38″W. / 41.856514°N 87.627172°W / 41.856514; -87.627172. Archer Avenue, sometimes known as Archer Road outside the Chicago, Illinois city limits, and also known as State Street only in Lockport, Illinois and Fairmont, Illinois city limits, is a street running northeast-to ...
Tollways. Scenic. ← IL 170. → I-172. Illinois Route 171 ( IL 171) is a 38.61-mile-long (62.14 km) north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois. It runs from U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Joliet north to Illinois Route 72 at the Chicago – Park Ridge border. [ 1] The section of IL 171 on Archer Avenue from Joliet to Summit is historically ...
Chicago Transit Authority. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) Chicago Surface Lines car 3142 at Illinois Railway Museum. The Chicago Surface Lines ( CSL) was operator of the street railway system of Chicago, Illinois, from 1913 to 1947. The firm is a predecessor of today's publicly owned operator, the Chicago Transit ...
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 ...
The discontinuance of the line made possible the widening of Archer Ave. from two lanes to four. At Harlem Ave. the rails came together in the middle of the street pavement and continued west. At today's 1st. Ave. interchange the rails went around a curve where Archer turns south and changes from Avenue to Road. The Lyons branch went north from ...
This is a list of bus routes operated by the Chicago Transit Authority. In 2023, the CTA bus system had a ridership of 161,699,200, or about 530,600 per weekday as of the first quarter of 2024. Routes running 24 hours a day, seven days a week are: The N4 (between 63rd/Cottage Grove and Washington/State only), N9 (between 95th/Dan Ryan ( Red ...
One definition has the South Side beginning at Roosevelt Road, at the Loop's southern boundary, with the community area known as the Near South Side immediately adjacent. . Another definition, taking into account that much of the Near South Side is in effect part of the commercial district extending in an unbroken line from the South Loop, locates the boundary immediately south of 18th Street ...
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.