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Fun with Urban Planning

Before the city had a coherent and organized address system, street addresses were based off of a system that used Lake Street as a north-south divider and the Chicago River as the east-west divider. Many homes throughout the city have retained the old addresses on their exterior, but of course utilize the address that was assigned after the new system was devised in 1909. [Chicago Patterns]