North Avenue (Chicago)
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| 1600 North North Avenue | |
North Avenue is a major east–west street in
cul-de-sac at 200 East, just west of Lake Shore Drive. From Illinois Route 43 (Harlem Avenue) to its east end, North Avenue is within the city limits of Chicago
.
Route description
North Avenue, signed as
cul-de-sac
, around 165 ft (50 m) east of Astor Street.
History
As its name suggests, it was the northern boundary of the City of Chicago west of LaSalle Street to Wood Street upon its incorporation on March 4, 1837. (East of LaSalle,
Armitage Avenue, then called Center Street, was the northern boundary.) The portion west to Western Avenue was annexed on February 14, 1851, and that west to Pulaski on the southern side February 27, 1869. On the northern side all of the Street in the City west of Kedzie was annexed with the Town of Jefferson effective June 29, 1889.[1]
North Avenue, a new road in DuPage County in the late 1920s, was put through in 1928, the first forty-foot highway through the county.[2]
Major Intersections
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DuPage | St. Charles |   IL 64 west | Continuation beyond Powis Road | ||
| 0 | 0.0 |  CR 18 (Powis Road) | |||
| West Chicago | 1.5 | 2.4 |  IL 59 (Neltnor Boulevard) | ||
CR 7 south (St. Charles Road) | |||||
CR 43 (County Farm Road) | |||||
CR 23 (Gary Avenue) | |||||
CR 36 (Schmale Road) | |||||
CR 4 (Bloomingdale Road) | |||||
| 9.2 | 14.8 |  CR 5 (Glen Ellyn Road (north) Main Street (south)) | |||
CR 54 (Swift Road) | |||||
| 10.4 | 16.7 |   I-355 Toll (Veterans Memorial Tollway) – Joliet, Northwest Suburbs | Toll barriers on southbound entrance and northbound exit ramps; I-355 exit 27 | ||
| 10.69 | 17.20 |  IL 53 (Rohlwing Road) | |||
CR 28 north (Villa Avenue) | |||||
IL 64 Truck east / IL 83 (Kingery Highway) | |||||
Chicago | I-290 exit 13B | ||||
    IL 64 Truck west – Rockford | I-290 exit 13A; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||||
 US 20 east (Lake Street)  I-294 Toll north (Tri-State Tollway) – Milwaukee | I-294 exit 33; westbound access to I-294 north via Railroad Avenue | ||||
| Cook | Northlake | 18.17– 18.61 | 29.24– 29.95 |   US 12 / US 45 (Mannheim Road) | Interchange |
| Melrose Park | 20.87 | 33.59 |  IL 171 (1st Avenue) | ||
Chicago | 22.38 | 36.02 |  IL 43 (Harlem Avenue) | ||
| 25.46 | 40.97 |  Cicero Avenue ) | |||
| 26.96 | 43.39 | CR W96 (Western Avenue) | |||
| 27.46 | 44.19 | CR W48 (Ashland Avenue) | |||
| 29.64 | 47.70 |   I-90 / I-94 (Kennedy Expressway) | I-94 exit 48B | ||
| 31.78 | 51.14 |   LMCT (Lake Shore Drive ) | Interchange | ||
| 31.83 | 51.23 | Roundabout on shore of Lake Michigan | Eastern Terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
Transportation
The road is mainly serviced by 72 North from Harlem Avenue to Clark Street. The N9 Ashland Owl serves the same segment the 72 does during the day east of Ashland Avenue.
The following CTA Lines service North Avenue:
- Purple Line Express at Sedgwick Street
- Red Line at Clybourn Avenue.
- Blue Line at Damen and Milwaukee Avenues(auxiliary exit on North Avenue)
References
- ^ "Population & Annexation". Chicagology. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ Crisler, Amy E. "Glendale Heights". History of DuPage County. Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
External links
Media related to North Avenue (Chicago) at Wikimedia Commons
