Continuing the grid...

I realize that I've now been in this town long enough that I've gotten a bit more used to the north/south streets and how they're laid out on the Chicago grid, so I figured I'd continue a prior post about how to get around this town.

Also, I've given up on the bad pun attempts of titling my posts after songs by the band Chicago.

Before I go on, of course there are some weird streets...Clark Street is 100 West downtown, but makes some diagonal slants as you go north. Grand slants as you go west. Milwaukee, Lincoln, Elston, Ogden, Archer, and Clybourn are a few of the major roads that are pretty much 100% diagonal, so there's no single east/west designation. (And as a rule, diagonal streets in Chicago are considered north/south streets.) And forget about Wacker Drive -- the only street in Chicago that actually has north, south, west, AND east addresses; because of the way it curves, Wacker crosses both Madison and State Streets!

First of all, I left out some of the east/west streets south of Madison that might be important...

Van Buren -- 300 South
Jackson -- 400 South
Congress Parkway -- 500 South
Harrison Street -- 600 South
Balbo -- 700 South
Polk -- 800 South
Roosevelt Road -- 1200 South

So...here are some north/south streets and how they related to State Street, the city's east/west dividing line...

Michigan -- varies between 125 and 150 East
100 East -- Rush Street
44 East -- Wabash
50 West (1/16th of a mile west of State Street) -- Dearborn
200 West -- Wells Street
300 West -- Franklin
800 West -- Halsted Street
1600 West -- Ashland Avenue
1700 West -- Paulina Street (pronounced "paul EYE nah")
2000 West -- Damen Avenue
2400 West -- Western Avenue
2600 West -- Rockwell
2800 West -- California Avenue
3000 West -- Sacramento Avenue
3200 West -- Kedzie Avenue
3600 West -- Central Park Avenue
4000 West -- Pulaski Road
4800 West -- Cicero Avenue
5600 West -- Central Avenue
7200 West -- Harlem Avenue