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Streetwise Chicago : a history of Chicago street names / Don Haynerand Tom McNamee ; with a foreword by John Callaway.
LIBRA F548.67.A1 H38 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayner, Don.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street names--Illinois--Chicago--History--Dictionaries.
- Street names.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- History.
- Streets--Illinois--Chicago--History--Dictionaries.
- Streets.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History--Dictionaries.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 153 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Street wise Chicago.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Loyola University Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- Welcome to the fascinating world of Chicago street names! Did you know that Ainslie Street was named after a real estate developer whose widow, in 1848, left for California to pan for gold with a new husband? Or did you know that Crandon Avenue was named for a prohibitionist congressional candidate who lost to his opponent in 1882 by a vote of 11,686 to 663?
- ISBN:
- 0829405976
- 0829405968
- OCLC:
- 18070957
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