>> WHEN YOU THINK OF LEARNING ABOUT THE ALPHABET ON WTW, YOU PROBABLY THINK OF SESAME STREET, BUT THE ABC'S AREN'T JUST THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF WORDS.

THEY'RE ALSO LITERAL BLOCKS THAT MAKE UP PART OF CHICAGO'S STREET GRID SPOTTING THE NICKNAME OF A SECTION OF NORTH LAWNDALE AS PART OF OUR SERIES WTW NEWS EXPLAINS.

NICK BLOOMBERG HAS A LESSON ON HOW SOME OF CHICAGO'S STREETS GOT THEIR ALLITERATIVE NAMES.

>> WHAT'S IN A NAME LIKE MOST MAJOR CITIES.

MANY OF CHICAGO'S STREETS ARE NAMED TO HONOR IMPORTANT PEOPLE.

YOU'VE GOT THE CLUSTER OF PRESIDENTS DOWNTOWN LAKE MONROE, MADISON IN WASHINGTON, FORMER MAYORS LIKE OGDEN EARLY DEVELOPERS LIKE JOHN CAN SEE AND PATRICK TOOMEY AND IN 2021 CHICAGO CHANGE THE NAME OF ONE OF ITS MOST FAMOUS AFFAIRS, OUTER LAKESHORE DRIVE TO HONOR JEAN BAPTISTE POINT DU SABLE.

THE FIRST NON-INDIGENOUS SETTLER OF OUR FAIR CITY.

BUT AS YOU TRAVEL, ALWAYS WEST FROM THE LAKE, IT'S HARD NOT TO NOTICE CLUSTERS OF NORTH-SOUTH STREETS.

THAT ALL STARTS WITH THE SAME LETTERS K L M WHAT GIVES BACK IN 1913, THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CHICAGO BUREAU OF MAPS WERE COOKING UP A PLAN REVAMP THE CITY'S STREET NAMES BECAUSE CHICAGO GROUP PIECEMEAL BY AND AXING SURROUNDING TOWNSHIPS.

IT WAS ALL A MISHMASH OF MISMATCH, NOMENCLATURE AND QUITE A FEW DISORIENTING DUPLICATE JOHN RILEY, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CITY'S MAP EURO, WANTED TO MAKE THINGS WAY, WAY MORE SIMPLE, LIKE ABC'S SIMPLE STARTING AT THE INDIANA STATE LINE, ALL NORTH SOUTH STREETS WHERE TO START WITH THE AT THE ONE MILE MARK BAIT.

SWITCH TO AT THE 2 MILE MARK.

THEY GO TO SEE AND SO EXCEPT MANY NORTH SOUTH STREETS IN THE EAST, EARN AND OLDEST PORTION OF THE CITY ALREADY HAD WELL ESTABLISHED AND RECOGNIZED NAMES.

SO THE PROPOSAL ONLY GOT PARTIAL APPROVAL FOR STREETS.

FARTHER WEST.

>> THAT'S WHY WEST OF PULASKI, YOU IMMEDIATELY BUMP INTO STREETS LIKE KEYSTONE CAR LOT HEAD AND THAT'S WHY PART OF NORTH LAWNDALE IS NICKNAMED KATE >> BUT IT DOESN'T STOP CHICAGO STRETCHES SO FAR WEST, YOU CAN FIND STREETS LIKE OCTAVIA OSCEOLA AND OZARK AND HOPE THAT SO NEXT TIME YOU'RE PASSING BY THESE OUT OF BLOCKS, YOU'LL KNOW IT WASN'T JUST A SESAME STREET SENSIBILITY, BUT AN EFFORT BY CITY LEADERS OF YOUR TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A LITTLE EASIER AS EASY AS ABC KLM.

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