Other Street name changes not in city ord. 2201

 

Ada is now called Maywood Avenue

Allen is now called Harrison Avenue

Allman is now called Hanover Street

Augusta is now called Vine Street

Black Oak Road is now called Orchard Drive  

Burch is now called New York Avenue

Charlotte Avenue is now called Maywood Avenue

Chesapeake Street is now called Magoun Avenue (7600 south)**

Chick Road in now called Osborn Avenue

Dolton is now called Sibley Street

Eleventh Avenue is now called 167th Street

Forsyth Court is now called Lee Court  

Grand Blvd is now called Lyman Avenue

Grand Rapids Road is now called Ridge Street  and Martha Street ^^

Harrison (Robertsdale) is now called Myrtle Ave

Hart is now called Highland Street

Hickory is now called Howard Avenue

Lyman (at Wilcox St 1 west of Hohman) is now called Paxton

Melville Avenue is now called Marshall Avenue  

Ninth Avenue is now called 165th Street

Park Avenue West is now called Wespark Avenue

Plummer Avenue is now called Willow Court

Railroad Avenue is now called Lyman Avenue  

Robert is now called Kane Street

Root is now called 141st Street

Saxony Road is now called 173rd Street

School Street is now called Marshall Avenue  

Second is now called Tell Avenue

Shinton is now called Clinton Street

Summer Boulevard is now called Summer Street

Summer Boulevard is now called 165th Street (2400 east to city limits)#

Tenth Avenue is now called Vine Street

Thirteenth Avenue is now called Martha Street  

Walter Avenue is now called Kenwood Street

Zachau is now called Wildwood Road


** Chesapeake Street was a diagonal street stretching from what is now the corner of 175th & Indpls. Blvd.  to the planned Woodmar railroad station on Southeastern Avenue, it was later changed to start at Southeastern go north east, then curve due north to 175th.

^^ Grand Rapids Road, also called Ridge Road (originally a street stretching form Calumet Avenue west to Columbia Avenue & from Northcote southeast to Woodmar Avenue thence westward to the city limits) This Street is no longer a through street and it has two different names: the section of it from Calumet & 165th heading southeast to Howard Avenue is now called Ridge Street, the remainder of the street is called Martha Street (from Indianapolis Blvd. southeast to Olcott Ave, from Woodmar Ave east to Osborn Ave, from Alexander Ave to Nevada Ave).

#Originally 165th Street was called two different names Standard Avenue and Summer Boulevard, it was called Standard Avenue from State Line (1 east) to the intersection where what is now Summer Street merges with 165th Street (about 2400 east), from there to Cline (the city limits) it was known as Summer Boulevard.


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