Archer Avenue, Chicago
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Archer Avenue (formerly Archer Road) in Chicago, Illinois is a diagonal street running southwest between the area south of the Chicago Loop and Harlem Avenue. It follows the old portage trail between the Chicago River and the Des Plaines River, and parallels the path of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Alton Railroad.
Archer Avenue is the street made famous by Finley Peter Dunne in his books and sketches about the fictional saloonkeeper Mr. Dooley, whose tavern was on "Archey Road". Dooley lived in the Bridgeport, Chicago neighborhood.
Archer Avenue was named after the first commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. One early map of Chicago (ca. 1830) listed the future Archer Road as "The Road to Widow Brown's". [[1]]
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