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1. • • Chicago's grid system assigns 800 address numbers to each mile of streets. Why 800? It's not an arbitrary number, that’s for sure! It's based on the city's standard block length of about 1/8 mile or 660 feet. Eight standard blocks typically fit in a mile, with each getting 100 address numbers.
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   What is Chicago's grid?

   • The Grid is Chicago’s circulatory system: the residential and commercial streets, secondary arterials, grand boulevards, and teeming expressways, the gangways and alleys. It is the system of street naming and numbering that makes Chicago comprehensible and easily navigated. But it wasn’t always thus.

   The Grid helps Chicago navigate the city’s streets—and its history

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   Does Chicago have a street grid?

   • A: Lake Michigan forms a natural eastern border to the grid. Streets typically end at Lake Shore Drive, which runs along the lakeshore. Chicago's unique grid system helps residents and visitors find their way around the city with ease. Understand how it works with Domu's Chicago street grid map.

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   Why did Chicago need a grid?

   • By 1869, the grid had become so integral to the city’s identity that the Tribune boasted, “There is no city where the opportunities for straight streets are so advantageous as in Chicago,” and demanded, “Give us straight, broad streets, running uninterruptedly from one extremity of the city to the other.”

   Why Chicago’s Grid Is a Model of Perfect Urban Order

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   Is Chicago a perfect grid?

   • On a scale of 0 to 1, in which 1 is a perfect grid, Chicago scores 0.9. (The least-perfect grid is Charlotte, a Sunbelt city whose street system is more entropic than Rome or São Paulo.) Why are Chicago’s streets such a near-perfect arrangement of 90-degree angles? The reason has to do with both Midwestern practicality and commerce.

   Why Chicago’s Grid Is a Model of Perfect Urban Order

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   What is the best feature of the Chicago grid?

   • Perhaps the BEST feature of the Chicago grid is its street numbering convention. Per Brennan's 1901 plan, each city block can have no more than 100 addresses...and each new block starts the next hundred numbers. This means (to return to a previous example) that 101 N State isn't just "kinda more north" than 1 N State.

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   What is a grid system of streets?

   • A grid system of streets is where streets are laid out to look like a grid, with two sets of streets that run parallel to their own set and perpendicular to the other set. One famous example of a grid system is Manhattan in New York City, where avenues run perpendicular to streets: Manhattan is on a grid system | Copyright Google

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   Aug 26, 2020 · Every street has a PREFIX to tell you how it's oriented. Brennan's plan for Chicago's new numbering system effectively divided the city into quadrants, delineated by State St. (north-south) and Madison St. (east-west) -- see the red lines on the historic map below.

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4. www.chicagomag.com › city-life › why-chicagos-gridWhy Chicago’s Grid Is a Model of Perfect Urban Order

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   Apr 5, 2016 · Out of 100 major world cities, Chicago “exhibits the closest approximation of a single perfect grid.” It’s not quite the City of Light, but it befits our city.

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   Chicago streets are organized in a beautiful grid pattern, but it can be quite confusing sometimes. This video runs through all the basics of Chicago's Grid ...

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7. www.domu.com › blog › chicago-coordinates-chicagoChicago Grid System & Chicago Street Guide - Domu

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   Jun 26, 2024 · Chicago's unique grid system helps residents and visitors find their way around the city with ease. Understand how it works with Domu's Chicago street grid map.

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   In this video we discuss The Chicago Grid System - a plan that began in 1901 by Edward P. Brennan for prefixing, numbering, and naming Chicago Streets.This v...

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    Sep 18, 2023 · In Part 1 (this post), we’re going to cover Chicago’s grid system, including the major streets and how to navigate from point A to point B. In Part 2, we cover the streets downtown. Not every street, but rather the major streets and some things to know, like how to navigate multi-level streets.

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    Jun 23, 2016 · The Grid is Chicago’s circulatory system: the residential and commercial streets, secondary arterials, grand boulevards, and teeming expressways, the gangways and alleys.