Halsted Street is a major north-south street in the U.S. city of Chicago , Illinois .
56-678: In Chicago's grid system , Halsted Street marks 800 West, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of State Street , from Grace Street (3800 N) in Lakeview south to the city limits at the Little Calumet River (13000 S) in West Pullman , a length of 168 north-south Chicago blocks. (From Grace north to Lawrence Avenue (4800 N) in Uptown , 800 W is marked by Clarendon Avenue.) In Lakeview Halsted passes through Wrigleyville, as intersecting with Addison Street , it
112-995: A 252nd Avenue, as far north as Skokie at Central Street (10100 North), and as far south as the southern edge of Will County. Suburbs that follow the Chicago numbering system include Berwyn , Bridgeview , Brookfield , Burbank , Channahon , Chicago Heights , Cicero , Crystal Lake , Elwood , Evergreen Park , Franklin Park , Justice , Lincolnwood , Matteson , Monee , Morris , Morton Grove , Niles , North Chicago , Oak Forest , Oak Lawn , Orland Park , Oswego , River Grove , Rosemont , Skokie , Westchester , unincorporated parts of Des Plaines , Glenview , and other parts of Cook County , Will, DuPage, Kendall , and Grundy Counties. Other suburbs, including Evanston , Park Ridge , Oak Park , Glenview and Wilmette use their own numbering systems. The six "collar" counties (DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will) use State and Madison as
168-513: A base line. For example, 32W000 in DuPage County is 32 miles west of State Street, 38000 in Lake County would be 38 miles north of Madison Street, and is normally used without the direction letter. In these counties, unlike Chicago, numbering is 1,000 numbers to the mile, so in DuPage County 32 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles west is 32W500. Some Chicago suburbs in adjoining Northwest Indiana also use
224-500: A film in 1934 traveling from the south end of Halsted Street to the North, across Chicago. The street derives its name from William H. and Caleb O. Halsted, Philadelphia bankers who made large investments in Chicago real estate through William B. Ogden , Chicago's first Mayor. The street ran through their property, and they ceded valuable rights to the city. Halsted has had several names, originally known as "Egyptian Road" because it led to
280-527: A grid that grew from the city's original townsite plan platted by James Thompson . Streets following the Public Land Survey System section lines later became arterial streets in outlying sections. As new additions to the city were platted, city ordinance required them to be laid out with eight streets to the mile in one direction and 16 in the other direction. A scattering of diagonal streets, many of them originally Native American trails , also cross
336-463: A large crowd while maintaining the dignity of the event. However the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee outlined a security plan, saying they "feel will bring this great neighborhood tradition back as the family friendly event it was meant to be". The parade returned on Sunday, March 11, 2012. Written by Tom Black, Tom Walsh, and Terry McEldowney A.K.A. The Irish Choir We're
392-476: A presence on the South Side since the 19th century. Since the 19th century, the ethnic Irish population in Chicago had been largely Catholic, and largely concentrated on the city's south side. Irish Catholics were often economically disenfranchised compared to other European ethnic groups, and often faced anti-irish sentiment or ethnic bias, especially by non-Catholic European groups. The Irish Catholic community
448-487: A public service. Only the designated streets in the townships of Lemont, Palos, Orland, Bremen, Lyons (south of the rivers) and Wheeling have the blue pentagon signs that are used to demarcate county roads. South Side Irish The South Side Irish is the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago , Illinois. After 1945, a large-scale movement to the suburbs occurred because of white flight and
504-428: A small strip of land connecting O'Hare to the rest of the city and containing only Foster Avenue. Some suburbs number their east–west streets in a continuation of the Chicago pattern, and even more number their houses according to the Chicago grid. A few suburbs also number their north–south avenues according to the Chicago grid, although such numbering vanished from Chicago itself long ago (the alphabetical naming scheme
560-585: A victim of the violence of white supremacy in the United States. Just south of 95th Street is the Carter G. Woodson regional branch of the Chicago Public Library . Illinois Route 1 begins at Halsted Street's interchange with Interstate 57 (at 99th Street) on the far south side, and follows Halsted through much of its length through the suburbs. Leaving Chicago and entering the village of Riverdale at
616-479: Is 138th Street. The eastern boundary of Chicago is Avenue A/State Line Road (4100 E) along and south of 106th Street, and the furthest west the city extends is in the portion of O'Hare International Airport that lies in DuPage County , just east of Elmhurst/York Road. 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
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#1732855144721672-412: Is a major secondary street. For example, Division Street (1200 N) is less important than either Chicago Avenue (800 N) or North Avenue (1600 N), but is still a major thoroughfare. However, this is not always the case; for example, on the city's Far North Side, Peterson Avenue (6000 N) is a more heavily trafficked street than Bryn Mawr Avenue (5600 N), which sits exactly at the 7-mile marker. U.S. Route 14
728-720: Is called 67th Street, and Marquette is aligned one block to the north on what would be 66th Street. (No part of Old Orchard Road, Church Street, or Main Street actually lies within the boundaries of Chicago. These streets are included for reference, since they are a continuation of the Chicago mile street pattern into the suburbs.) A similar numbering system is also used in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . The following streets run diagonally through Chicago's grid system on all or part of their courses. These streets tend to form major 5 or 6-way intersections. In many cases they were Indian trails, or were among
784-569: Is one of only two streets to completely traverse this, the Chicago River 's only island. Continuing south, Halsted soars high above feeder ramps to the Kennedy Expressway , Union Pacific Railroad and Canadian National Railway and finally the Kennedy Expressway itself to enter the West Loop . One then passes through Chicago's Greektown at Jackson Blvd (300 S). South of a high bridge over
840-459: Is only two blocks east of Wrigley Field home of the Chicago Cubs . Halsted is then lined with restaurants, bars and gay bars and clubs as one enters Boystown , Chicago's main gay and lesbian community , running as far as Belmont Avenue . This area also contains numerous theaters and comedy clubs. As it continues south past Diversey (2800 N), it goes past DePaul University and through
896-411: Is routed along Peterson between Clark Street at 1600 W and Cicero Avenue at 4800 W, whereas Bryn Mawr is discontinuous, split into two segments in this part of the city by Rosehill Cemetery between Damen and Western Avenues. Even-numbered addresses are found on the north and west sides of a street, and odd numbers are found on the south and east sides, irrespective of the streets' position relative to
952-764: Is served by major transportation lines. On the Chicago "L" , the Red , Brown , and Purple Lines run nearby on the North Side. Stations along Halsted Street appear on the Red Line ( North/Clybourn ), the Blue Line ( Grand and UIC–Halsted ), the Green Line ( Halsted at 63rd Street), and the Orange Line ( Halsted at Archer Avenue). Three Metra commuter lines directly serve Halsted Street:
1008-883: The 108 Halsted/95th between the 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line terminal and 127th/Lowe. Pace provides suburban bus service along Halsted Street south of 95th Street. The 352 Halsted route operates 24/7 between 95th/Dan Ryan station and the Chicago Heights Bus Terminal in Chicago Heights, Illinois . The bus route serves a major transfer hub at Harvey Transportation Center in Harvey, Illinois . The 359 Robbins/South Kedzie Avenue also runs along Halsted between 95th/Dan Ryan station and 124th Street before turning west. Professional wrestlers One Man Gang , Colt Cabana , Ace Steel , CM Punk , and Gary Hart have been billed from Halsted Street. Conrad Friberg, aka C.O. Nelson produced
1064-688: The BNSF Line ( Halsted Street station at 16th Street), the Rock Island Line ( Gresham station at 87th Street), and the Blue Island branch of the Metra Electric District ( West Pullman station at 121st Street). Three CTA bus routes provide service along Halsted Street: 8 Halsted between Broadway/Waveland and 79th Street, 8A South Halsted between the 79th Red Line station and Halsted/119th (with select trips continuing to 127th/Lowe), and
1120-581: The Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods, in 1981. The parade, led by the Chicago Stockyard Kilty Band and held on either the Sunday before or the Sunday of St. Patrick's Day every year, it was considered to be one of the largest St. Patrick's Day community celebrations outside of Dublin . The 2008 parade was the 30th annual parade, which was held on Sunday, March 9, 2008. Of the two Chicago parades,
1176-511: The Chicago River 's south branch. Here Halsted Street enters Bridgeport , traditionally a working-class Irish , Lithuanian and Italian community, it has been home to five of the city's mayors. Continuing south, Halsted passes between the borders of Back of the Yards , which lies to the west side of Halsted from 40th to 55th Streets, and Canaryville , which lies on the east side of Halsted between 40th and 49th Streets. Both Canaryville and Back of
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#17328551447211232-536: The Eisenhower Expressway , Halsted forms the eastern border of the University of Illinois at Chicago . North of Greektown is the headquarters for Weigel Broadcasting (owner of MeTV ) and its local television stations ( WCIU-TV , WWME-CD , and WMEU-CD ), which are appropriately addressed at 26 N. Halsted Street, to honor WCIU-TV's channel number. The Jane Addams Hull House , America's first settlement house,
1288-734: The Lincoln Park area, as a primary thoroughfare through the community area. South of Armitage Avenue , it passes two notable theaters: Steppenwolf and the Royal George. At North Avenue , Halsted passes Clybourn Avenue, through the Old Town area . The former site of the Cabrini–Green housing project is at Halsted and Division (1200 N) in the Near North Side neighborhood. Halsted Street has two bridges to mark its passage over Goose Island ; it
1344-552: The Little Egypt area of Illinois, it was subsequently known as First Street, then Dyer Street, after Charles Volney Dyer , a prominent Chicago physician and abolitionist . The entire route is in Cook County . Streets and highways of Chicago#Grid Roads and expressways in Chicago summarizes the main thoroughfares and the numbering system used in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. Chicago's streets were laid out in
1400-552: The "Wee Folks of Washtenaw and Talman") from the West Morgan Park area. The parade route began from the 109th block of S. Washtenaw and Talman streets. Marching to the parade theme of “Bring Back St. Pat”, and an original parade float of a baby buggy covered with shamrocks and the 26 county flags of Ireland, the South Side Irish Parade was born. The theme created by Hendry and Coakley was their way of wanting to bring back
1456-549: The 11th mile west of the Indiana state line, and so begin with the 11th letter of the alphabet. A mile later, just past Cicero (4800 W), the starting letter changes to L, and mile by mile the letters progress up to P. Additionally, for most of the first mile west of the Illinois/Indiana state line, streets are lettered from Avenue A at the state line (4100 E) to Avenue O (3430 E), forming the A group. The areas that might otherwise be
1512-417: The B through J groups are the older parts of the city where street names were already well established before this system was developed (although some small groups of streets seem to have been given names intended to conform to the system), and the Q group (8800 to 9600 W) would fall west of the city, as the only land in Chicago west of 8800 West is O'Hare International Airport , undeveloped forest preserve, and
1568-753: The Chicago numbering system. These include East Chicago , Whiting , and Hammond . There are even examples further south in Lake County in Dyer and Schererville such as 205th Place through 215th Street (these examples coordinate with the Chicago grid, not the Gary street system). Other municipalities, such as Highland , and Griffith are based on the Gary, Indiana numbering system, beginning with 5th Avenue in Gary and increasing numerically as one travels southward. Examples in Scheider in
1624-633: The Great Depression of the 1930s. Greektown and Maxwell Street business establishments continue to exist as remnants of the mass emigration of Southern Europeans, terminated by an act of Congress in 1924. South of an underpass allowing Halsted to cross the BNSF Railway tracks at 16th street, parallel to the Dan Ryan Expressway , Halsted grazes the eastern edge of the Pilsen neighborhood, then crosses
1680-805: The Little Calumet River near 129th St, Route 1 breaks off and is called Chicago Road, then Dixie Highway, ending at the Ohio River , at the border with the state of Kentucky . Halsted Street continues through downtown Chicago Heights and crosses the Lincoln Highway . The road ends at 26th Street at the Chicago Heights– Steger line. However, Halsted Street returns at 30th Street and continues south (marked as Halsted Boulevard south of 34th Street) before ending at 37th Street in Steger. Halsted Street
1736-522: The South Side Irish to the suburbs became pronounced in the 1940s and 50s due to white flight , highway construction, and governmental policies that encouraged suburbanization . The South Side Irish Parade is one of three annual St. Patrick's Day parades in Chicago. The South Side Irish Parade originally started in 1979. There was another South Side parade called the Southtown Parade started in
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1792-640: The South Side Irish-Let's sing it out once more! Our parents came from Mayo , from Cork and Donegal . We come from Sabina's, St. Kilian and St. Gall Leo, Visitation, Little Flower and the rest. The South Side parishes are mighty-they're the best! Chorus We live on the South Side-Mayor Daley lived here too The Greatest Irish Leader that Chicago ever knew he was always proud of his South Side Irish roots! So here's to his honor to his memory we'll be true. Chorus We sing
1848-480: The South Side parade that they had enjoyed as children. They had delivered notices along the original parade route to encourage people to participate in the parade by standing and waving from their porches. Popularity continued to grow, and in 1980 it was moved to Kennedy Park with an increased 300 participants, including children, dogs, and a bag piper. It has grown since then and was moved to its current route, down Western Avenue from 103rd Street to 115th Street through
1904-589: The Windy City Irish-where the craic is always best Where every day is Paddy's Day and everyone's a guest If you're Irish on the North Side or Irish on the West Welcome to the South Side come join our Irish Fest! (Chorus) We're the South Side Irish as our fathers were before We come from the Windy City and we're Irish to the core From Bridgeport to Beverly from Midway to South Shore We're
1960-411: The Yards historically housed many Union Stock Yards workers. The Stockyards themselves were located to the west of Halsted between Pershing (39th) and 47th. Further south, Halsted Street passes into Englewood . Kennedy-King College has its campus in the heart of Englewood at 63rd Street and Halsted Street. Further south, Halsted intersects with 71st Street, which was honorarily named for Emmett Till ,
2016-401: The boundaries of Chicago. These streets are included for reference, since they are a continuation of the Chicago mile street pattern into the suburbs.) The density of main streets in downtown Chicago is greater than in the rest of the city, with some at half-block spacing (just 50 address numbers or one-sixteenth mile from the next parallel street), or block spacing between main streets, unlike
2072-403: The city council adopted a system proposed by Edward P. Brennan; amended June 21, 1909. The changes were effective September 1, 1909 for most of the city. Addresses in Chicago and some suburbs are numbered outward from baselines at State Street , which runs north and south, and Madison Street , which runs east and west. A book was published in 1909 by The Chicago Directory Company indexing
2128-516: The city. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago , but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, a network of superhighways was built radiating from the city center. As the city grew and annexed adjacent towns, problems arose with duplicate street names and a confusing numbering system based on the Chicago River. On June 22, 1908,
2184-420: The corner of State and Madison. Diagonals, even if they were to run exactly 45 degrees off of the cardinal directions, are numbered as if they were north–south or east–west streets. Examples are North Lincoln Avenue and Ogden Avenue, which bends at Madison and changes from North Ogden to West Ogden. The northernmost street in Chicago is Juneway Terrace (7800 N), just north of Howard Street. The southern boundary
2240-427: The earliest streets established in the city. Diagonals are numbered as north–south or east–west streets. Examples are North Lincoln Avenue and Ogden Avenue, which bends at Madison and changes from North Ogden to West Ogden. The city of Chicago proper contains seven major Interstate highways . Cook County has a modest amount of county roads after plans were made in 2009 to designate many roads on county ownership as
2296-744: The early 1950s. The original Southtown Parade route was on 79th Street from Ashland Avenue to Halsted Avenue in the St. Sabina Parish in Auburn Gresham neighborhood, which had a large Irish population until white flight rapidly occurred in the late 1960s. Some years after Richard J. Daley was elected mayor in 1955, he moved the Southtown Parade downtown and changed the name to the St. Patrick's Day Parade, though it continued on its old route until at least 1958. On Saturday, March 17, 1979, best friends and original creators George Hendry and Pat Coakley, along with their wives, assembled 17 children (known in parade lore as
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2352-629: The far south of Lake County, Indiana go as far down as 244th Avenue. The aforementioned pattern also occurs in Waukegan, Illinois , with Washington Street being the baseline between north and south. Nearby municipalities such as Gurnee , Park City , and North Chicago continue with the Waukegan numbering pattern, while rural areas in Lake County, Illinois follow the Chicago grid. (No part of Golf Road, Dempster Street, Oakton Street, Wolf Road, LaGrange Road or 143rd Street to 311th Street actually lies within
2408-466: The intersection of Western Avenue (2400 W) and Division Street (1200 N)). South of Madison Street most of the east–west streets are simply numbered. The street numbering is aligned with the house numbering , so that 95th Street is exactly 9500 South. "Half-block" east–west thoroughfares in this area are numbered and called places; 95th Place would lie just south of and parallel to 95th Street, and just north of 96th Street. Every four blocks (half-mile)
2464-439: The last two digits of house numbers generally go only as high as 67 before the next block number is reached. Higher house numbers are found on diagonal streets and have sometimes been assigned by request. The blocks are normally counted out by "hundreds," so that Chicagoans routinely give directions by saying things such as "about twelve hundred north on Western" or "around twenty-four hundred west on Division" (which both describe
2520-405: The law on June 20, 1910. Downtown was defined as Lake Michigan on the east, Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) on the south, and the Chicago River on the north and west. The addition to cover downtown was published, and is also on line as a pdf indexed by downtown street name. This additional paragraph explained the downtown changes: The 1909 address change did not affect downtown Chicago, between
2576-426: The mile, Cermak Road (previously 22nd Street) is two miles south of Madison with 1000 addresses to the mile, and 31st Street (3100 S) is three miles south of Madison with 900 addresses to the mile. South of 31st Street, the pattern of 800 to the mile resumes, with 39th Street the next major street, 47th after that, and so on. Individual house numbers are normally assigned at the rate of one per 20 feet of frontage. Thus
2632-513: The old and new street numbers for most of Chicago. This volume is available online in PDF format indexed by initial letter, Plan of Re-Numbering, City of Chicago, August 1909. The opening text of the book says: EXPLANATORY The new house numbering plan passed by the City Council June 22, 1908, to be in force and effect September 1, 1909, makes Madison Street from Lake Michigan to the city limits on
2688-466: The other being in downtown, the South Side Irish Parade was the more raucous occasion. The 2009 parade was presumably the last parade. On March 25, 2009, the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee announced that they were not planning to stage a parade in its present form in March 2010. They noted that the event had become too large for the community to accommodate and the difficulty in policing such
2744-434: The rest of the city where the main streets are spaced at half-mile and mile intervals: The half-mile numbered streets on the South Side are all secondary streets: 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th, etc.; all are numbered aside from Marquette Road, running at 6700 S, west from King Drive (400 E) to the city's western limit at Cicero Avenue (4800 W), near Midway International Airport . East of King to near Lake Michigan at 2400 E, it
2800-437: The river and Roosevelt Road, the river and Lake Michigan. The ordinance was amended June 20, 1910 to include the downtown area. The new addresses for the “loop” went into use on April 1, 1911. Chicago house numbers are generally assigned at the rate of 800 to a mile. The only exceptions are from Madison to 31st Street, just south of downtown. Roosevelt Road (previously Twelfth St) is one mile south of Madison with 1200 addresses to
2856-460: 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)/Komensky (South Side), Karlov, Kedvale, Keeler, Kildare, Kolin, Kostner, Kenneth, Kilbourn, Kolmar, Kenton, Knox, Kilpatrick, Keating), giving rise to the expression "K-town". These streets are found approximately in
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#17328551447212912-452: The steady upward social mobility of the Irish. Although their population has spread out, Irish Americans continue to make up the majority of the ethnic white American population on the south side of Chicago , especially in Beverly , Canaryville , Bridgeport , Scottsdale , Mount Greenwood , Morgan Park , Garfield Ridge , Clearing , Evergreen Park , and Oak Lawn . Irish-Americans have had
2968-458: The west the base line for numbering all north and south streets and streets running in northerly or southerly direction. For east and west streets and streets running in a generally east and west direction the base line is State Street from the southern city boundary line to North Avenue, thence extended by an imaginary line through Lincoln Park and Lake Michigan. The downtown area did not conform to this system until April 1, 1911, per an amendment to
3024-589: Was devised to help eliminate it). For example, the 54th/Cermak terminus of the Pink Line is located near the intersection of 54th Avenue and Cermak Road (22nd Street) in Cicero . This is 54 blocks west of State Street in Chicago. A minor street 54 + 1 ⁄ 2 blocks west of State Street would be called 54th Court (in reality, that is Lotus Avenue in Chicago). This pattern continues as far west as Plainfield , which has
3080-443: Was largely tight-knit with census records from the early 20th century suggesting areas like Canaryville , sometimes referred to as “Irish ghettos” being almost exclusively Irish. By the 20th century, the Irish community began advancing both socially and economically. By the mid-20th century, the Irish had largely assimilated into American society, with many abandoning their Catholic faith, though many also maintaining it. Movement of
3136-508: Was located at Polk (800 S) and Halsted. The "Hull House Neighborhood," which was served by the Jane Addams settlement house, consisted of recently arrived immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. Taylor Street (1000 S) was the port-of-call for Chicago's Italian American immigrants and became known as Chicago's Little Italy. Italians were the only ethnic group that remained after the exodus of Jews, Greeks, Irish, etc. that began shortly before
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