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Clark Street
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| Direction: |
North-South and diagonal |
| From: |
Howard Street |
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Cermak Road |
| Major cities: |
Chicago |
Chicago's Clark Street is a north-south street in Chicago running from 7600 North to 2200 South in the city street numbering system.[1] It is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue) south to Cermak Road. Even as a diagonal it runs more north than northwest. At its northern end it is at 1800 West and from North Avenue down to Cermak it is 100 West.[1] Originally an Indian trail, it ran all the way to Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is named for George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero who captured much of the Northwest Territory from the British and the elder brother of William Clark.
[edit] Points of Interest
At Addison Street it runs next to Wrigley Field. 2122 N. Clark was the site of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, although the building no longer stands. Further to the south it borders Lincoln Park and at North Avenue sits the Chicago History Museum. It then turns due south for the remainder of its run as it passes through the Near North Side, where in the River North neighborhood it passes the Rock & Roll McDonalds. Then it continues over the Chicago River at the Clark Street Bridge and through the Loop where it passes the Thompson Center and its Monument with Standing Beast. Then it continues between City Hall and the Daley Center and on to its termination at Cermak Road.
[edit] Trivia
The scene in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in which the parking garage attendants go airborne in Camerons' father's red Ferrari was shot on South Clark Street, near Roosevelt Road.
- ^ a b Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, Streetwise Chicago, "Clark Street", p. 23, Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6
