Clark Street (Chicago)

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Chicago's Clark Street is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue, and further north, Green Bay Road) south to Cermak Road. Even as a diagonal it runs more north than northwest. Originally an Indian trail, it ran all the way to Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is named for George Rogers Clark.

[edit] Points of Interest

At Addison Street it runs next to Wrigley Field, further to the south it borders Lincoln Park and at North Avenue sits the Chicago History Museum. It then turns due south for the remainder of its run as it passes through the Near North Side, then over the river at the Clark Street Bridge, through the Loop where it passes City Hall, and on to its termination at Cermak Road.

[edit] Trivia

The scene in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in which the parking garage attendants go airborne in Camerons' father's red Ferrari was shot on South Clark Street near Roosevelt Road.