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She had interesting things to say about bringing bike sharing to her district, as well as plans for extending the North Branch trail 4. The latter will make it possible to bike roughly 25 miles from Belmont and the Chicago River in Lakeview to the Chicago Botanic Gardens in north suburban Glencoe on an almost entirely car-free route.

I think that any improvements that have happened have actually already happened. I want people to once again be able to bring their bicycles to that stop and then hop on the train and go downtown.

But getting to the train station on your bicycle… what do we call it, the last mile? Continue reading More from Marge: Alderman Laurino talks trails, bike sharing. Photo by Jeff Zoline. Mayor Emanuel has 60 days from Tuesday to appoint a successor and hinted at the process in which he would vet candidates. Starting with 8th St. This means that 55th St. Note that a few South Side streets are named, mostly historic roads or boulevards -- for example, 55th Street is also known as Garfield Boulevard as it approaches Garfield Park, and S is still named "Roosevelt Rd.

Another naming convention that you're less likely to encounter occurs on the far west side of the city. West of Pulaski St.

A final set of "mini" naming conventions can be seen downtown. Once you get north of the river, there's a band of east-west streets named after the Great Lakes Huron, Superior, Erie, Ontario, and -- running north-south -- Michigan. Perhaps more usefully, the grid includes major streets at each mile out from the "axial" streets of Madison and State.

For a good map of the city highlighting these streets, see the rule about street numbers, above. On the South Side, this convention is slightly askew of what one might expect, because of a slight disconnect between the blocks' names and their distances from Madison St. Thus, by distance , the major mile-marker streets from Madison, heading south, include:. After 31st St. Apart from their usefulness in navigating mass transit across the city, knowing the major streets and, to a lesser extent, the "semi-major" streets at the half mile intervals is also very helpful when asking directions.

Given their usefulness in getting around the city, many long-time residents will reference these streets as landmarks. You now know everything you need to know about the "rules" that govern Chicago's grid system. Of course, like any system, this one has its exceptions, AKA places where the system breaks down. Particular exceptions usually have some history associated with them -- e.

The largest set of exceptions to the grid are Chicago's prominent diagonal streets. Here too, there's historic significance involved: most of the diagonals faithfully trace the trading routes of the region's original inhabitants, principally the Potawatomie , Ojibwa and Odawa tribes. As a general rule, the diagonal streets radiate out from the loop, and intersect the regular "grid" streets at major intersections. Long-time Chicagoans refer to such intersections as "Six-Ways. When reading it, note how the routes emphasized the very same diagonals we have today -- from North to South, Broadway, Clark St.

Learn More! Vlogs about Chicago Travel writer and Chicagoan Luis Gusto 's video post about the Chicago grid helped inform a lot of the content you'll find here.

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