Chicago has such a nice grid of streets. Every eight blocks is a mile. And every four blocks is a major street. Very organized. I made a goal on 43 things to memorize all of the major Chicago street names.
Wikipedia has a nice list of the Chicago numbers for the streets. Although they break it up into two charts. One with just the streets every mile. And one for secondary streets. I just combined them into one list.
9600 N (Golf Rd.)
8800 N (Dempster St.)
8000 N (Oakton St.)
7600 N Howard St.
7200 N Touhy Ave.
6800 N Pratt Ave
6400 N Devon Ave.
6000 N Peterson Ave, part of U.S. Highway 14
5600 N Bryn Mawr Ave.
5200 N Foster Ave
4800 N Lawrence Ave.
4600 N Wilson Ave (not a half-mile)
4400 N Montrose Ave
4000 N Irving Park Rd.
3600 N Addison St
3200 N Belmont Ave.
2800 N Diversey Ave
2400 N Fullerton Ave.
2000 N Armitage Ave
1600 N North Ave.
1200 N Division St
800 N Chicago Ave.
0 N/S Madison St.
1200 S Roosevelt Rd.
1400 S 14th St. (not a half-mile)
1800 S 18th St. (not a half-mile)
2200 S Cermak Rd.
3100 S 31st St.
3900 S Pershing Rd.
4700 S 47th St.
8800 W East River Rd.
8400 W Cumberland Ave.
8000 W Pacific Ave.
7200 W Harlem Ave.
6800 W Oak Park Ave
6400 W Narragansett Ave.
6000 W Austin Ave
5600 W Central Ave.
5200 W Laramie Ave
4800 W Cicero Ave
4400 W Kostner Ave.
4000 W Pulaski Rd. (Formerly: Crawford Ave.)
3600 W Central Park Ave.
3400 W Kimball Ave (not a half-mile)
3200 W Kedzie Ave.
2800 W California Ave
2400 W Western Ave.
2000 W Damen Ave
1600 W Ashland Ave.
1200 W Racine Ave
800 W Halsted Street
0 E/W State Street
400 E Martin Luther King Jr Dr. (King Dr.)
800 E Cottage Grove Ave.
1200 E Woodlawn Ave
1600 E Stony Island Ave.
2000 E Jeffery Blvd.
2400 E Yates Ave.
2800 E Torrence Ave
3000 E Commercial Ave (not a half-mile)
3200 E Brandon Ave.
3600 E Ewing Ave
4000 E Avenue C
Avenue C cracks me up. You know you are far out when you are at Avenue C!
I’m familiar with Harlem Ave, Oak Park Ave, Austin, Central and the other W streets, but I have never heard of Narragansett Ave in my life. I think you made that up!
I have heard of Narragansett. Although that would be funny to make one up and sneak it into the list.
I concur. Narragansett is just made up. He’s just trying to keep the joke going. 😀 Good luck with that. I learned some streets by riding the bus and not having my iPod.
Growing up, a friend of mine lived on Narragansett. It definitely exists.
I just visited Narragansett this weekend for the first time in my life. There is a Lowe’s at Narragansett and Diversey. (Along with a Target, Marshall’s and a slew of other shops, I was quite impressed)
Is anyone familar with the Wrightwood neighborhood (near Sheridan and Diversey)? I need the block number for travel purposes
this is very helpful and thank you for posting it. but you have north ave and division mixed up. they just need to be swtiched around.
Thank you Bridget for noticing that. The order is now corrected.
Ridgleland takes the name Narragansett around North ave going North.