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SOUTH LOOP AND NEAR
SOUTH SIDE

Two of Chicago’s neighborhoods have always World War II, manufacturers left and the area
been areas of diversity, with dereliction and declined. Not until the 1970s did it again
gentrification coexisting side by side. The show signs of prosperity. The Near South Side
South Loop developed as an industrial area in also had cycles of boom and bust. After the
the late 1800s. But after 1871 fire, the city’s elite created a wealthy
enclave here that lasted until the early 1900s.
WEST CONGRESS PARKWAY
LaSalle
St Harrison Decay followed, as brothels and gambling
W HARRISON ST
houses formed the Levee vice district. In the
EAST BALBO AVE EAST BALBO DRIVE 1940s, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
W POLK ST
E 8TH transformed the area yet again. The contrasts
ST SOUTH COLUMBUS DRIVE GRANT SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
PARK
E 9TH ST remain striking. The oldest residence in the
SOUTH LASALLE ST
city, the Clarke House and Museum, is minutes
E 11TH ST
by car from the sleek IIT campus; the city’s
S PLYMOUTH ST
S FEDERAL PARK TER
Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT ROAD Museum Campus/ teeming Chinatown
11th Street
borders the historic
EAST SOLIDARITY DRIVE
EAST 13TH STREET
Black Metropolis.
McFETRIDGE DR
W 14TH ST OLD LAKE SHORE DRIVE
S DEARBORN ST
SOUTH CLARK STREET
EAST 16TH STREET SOUTH INDIANA AVENUE E WALDRON DR
W 17TH ST
18TH DRIVE
SOUTH WABASH AVENUE
EAST 18TH STREET SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
18th Street
W 19TH ST
530 yards
15 •16 EAST CULLERTON STREET
SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE
SOUTH STATE STREET
355 yards
EAST 21ST STREET SOUTH PRAIRIE AVENUE
See also Street Finder
355 yards
EAST CERMAK ROAD SOUTH CALUMET AVENUE maps 3, 4, 5 & 6
EAST 23RD STREET
McCormick
Place
EAST 24TH STREET
EAST 24TH PLACE
ADLAI E STEVENSON EXPRESSWAY
SOUTH FEDERAL ST WEST
25TH STREET
EAST 25TH
STREET
SOUTH CLARK STREET EAST 26TH STREET SOUTH PRAIRIE AVENUE SOUTH CALUMET AVENUE E 26 TH ST S EL LIS AVE 27th Street
E 28TH ST
S INDIANA AVE
E 29TH ST SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE EAST 29TH STREET MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DRIVE S VERNON AVE SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
SOUTH STATE STREET
S FEDERAL ST
E 30TH GROVE AVE S COTTAGE S LAKE PARK AVE
ST
EAST 31ST STREET
EAST 32ND STREET SOUTH GILES AVE S RHODES AVE
E 32ND ST 0 meters 500
S FEDERAL ST
E 32ND PL
E 33RD ST SOUTH INDIANA AVENUE 0 yards 500
EAST 33RD PLACE
SOUTH CALUMET AVENUE
SOUTH PRAIRIE AVENUE
EAST 35TH STREET S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
E BROWNING 36TH
AVE S VINCENNES EAS T STREET
535 yards AVE
S CALUMET AVE
For keys to symbols see back flap
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