Author : Don Hayner,Tom McNamee
Publisher : Wild Onion Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019980013
Streetwise Chicago by Don Hayner,Tom McNamee Pdf
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?