Historic Michigan Boulevard District

Historic Michigan Boulevard District
Michigan Avenue
Maintained byDepartment of Streets & Sanitation
LocationChicago
North end150 North at Randolph Street
Major
junctions
Monroe Street/Drive
Jackson Blvd./Drive US 66
Ida B. Wells Dr.
from/to Eisenhower Expressway I-290
Balbo Drive
South end1100 South/1200 South at Roosevelt Road

The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.[1][2][3] It was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 27, 2002.[1] The district includes numerous significant buildings on Michigan Avenue facing Grant Park.[4] This section of Michigan Avenue includes the eastern terminus of U.S. Route 66. The district is one of the world's best known one-sided streets rivalling Fifth Avenue in New York City and Edinburgh's Princes Street.[1] It lies immediately south of the Michigan–Wacker Historic District and east of the Loop Retail Historic District.

  1. ^ a b c "Historic Michigan Boulevard District". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  2. ^ Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, Streetwise Chicago, Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6.
  3. ^ Emporis claims this district extends to Roosevelt Road which is 1200 South.
  4. ^ "Michigan Avenue Landmark District". Emporis. 2007. Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)