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Ogden Avenue

East-west arterial avenue in Chicago, Illinois

Summary

East-west arterial avenue in Chicago, Illinois

Field	Value
name	Ogden Avenue
caption	Ogden Avenue at Pulaski and Cermak, looking toward the Loop
image	File:Ogden Avenue.jpg
alternate_name	William B. Ogden Memorial Highway
part_of	{{plainlist
* {{jct	state	IL	US	34}} from Oswego–Montgomery line to the Lyons–Riverside–Berwyn tripoint
* {{jct	state	IL	US	30}} in Montgomery
length_mi	37.5
direction_a	Southwest
terminus_a	at the Oswego–Montgomery line
location	Kendall, Kane, DuPage and Cook counties in Illinois, United States
junction	{{plainlist
* {{Jct	state	IL	US	30	Lincoln}} in Montgomery
* {{Jct	state	IL	IL	83}} at the Westmont–Clarendon Hills–Hinsdale tripoint
* {{jct	state	IL	I-Toll	294}} in Hinsdale–Western Springs line
* {{Jct	state	IL	US	12	US	20	US	45}} in La Grange
* {{Jct	state	IL	IL	171}} in Lyons
* {{Jct	state	IL	US	34	IL	43}} at the Lyons–Riverside–Berwyn tripoint
* {{Jct	state	IL	IL	50}} in Cicero
* {{Jct	state	IL	I	90	I	94}} in West Town, Chicago
direction_b	Northeast
terminus_b	Chestnut Street

from Oswego–Montgomery line to the Lyons–Riverside–Berwyn tripoint
in Montgomery
in Montgomery
at the Westmont–Clarendon Hills–Hinsdale tripoint
in Hinsdale–Western Springs line
in La Grange
in Lyons
at the Lyons–Riverside–Berwyn tripoint
in Cicero
in West Town, Chicago Ogden Avenue is a street extending from West Town of Chicago to Montgomery in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was named for William B. Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago.

A portion of Ogden Avenue west of Harlem Avenue is part of U.S. Route 34. Ogden Avenue ends when U.S. Route 34 leaves Aurora at the intersection of U.S. Route 34 and U.S. Route 30 on the border of Aurora, Montgomery, and Oswego.

The street intersects Interstate 90/Interstate 94 (Kennedy Expressway) in Chicago, Interstate 294 (Tri-State Tollway) in Western Springs, and Interstate 355 in Lisle. The intersection of U.S. Route 34 (Ogden Avenue) and U.S. Route 12/U.S. Route 20/U.S. Route 45 (LaGrange Road) is one of the few places where four U.S. Routes intersect.

History

The street follows the route of the Southwestern Plank Road, a plank road opened in 1848 across swampy terrain between Chicago and Riverside, Illinois, and, by 1851, extended to Naperville.

In the 1920s the broad avenue became an important arterial carrying auto traffic through the city's West Side. Portions of the avenue carried U.S. Route 66 from the city through adjacent suburbs. It carried US 32 until 1934. Ogden Avenue used to carry U.S. Route 34 to its end as well.

Former extension to Lincoln Park

The 1909 Plan of Chicago recommended an entire network of new diagonal streets, but the only one ever built was the extension in the 1920s of Ogden from Union Park through the Old Town neighborhood to end at Clark Street opposite Lincoln Park. This extension, largely built in the 1920s, was completed in 1934 with bridges and a connecting viaduct across Goose Island and the North Branch of the Chicago River. In the late 1960s, as part of an urban renewal project for Old Town, the street was vacated in this area and sold off for development. In recent decades, additional portions of Ogden have been abandoned and vacated. The avenue now ends a short distance north of Chicago Avenue.

Major intersections

References

[https://archive.org/stream/chicagoshighways00quairich/chicagoshighways00quairich_djvu.txt Chicago's Highways Old and New From Indian Trail to Motor Road], Milo M. Quaife, D. F. Keller & Company, Chicago, 1923
""Begin Final Link of Ogden Avenue Drive This Week," 1934".
(25 November 1993). "The Disappearing Street". Chicago Reader.
"Overview map of Ogden Avenue".

Wikipedia Source

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