Clark Street is a north – south street in Chicago , Illinois that runs close to the shore of Lake Michigan from the northern city boundary with Evanston , to 2200 South in the city street numbering system . At its northern end, Clark Street is at 1800 West; however the street runs diagonally through the Chicago grid for about 8 miles (13 km) to North Avenue (1600 N) and then runs at 100 West for the rest of its course south to Cermak Road . It is also seen in Riverdale beyond 127th street across the Calumet River , along with other nearby streets that ended just south of the Loop . The major length of Clark Street runs a total of 98 blocks.
26-463: Clark Street may refer to: Clark Street (Chicago) Clark Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) , a New York City Subway station Clark-Tillary Streets (BMT Fulton Street Line) , a demolished station Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Clark Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-505: A 400-page book with more than 350 illustrations, drawn from the museum's collection. The app also offers of 10 distinct Chicago areas and 54 fire-related landmarks. The app uses GPS guidance that helps the user view photos of nearby sites from the era of the Great Chicago Fire. The museum also publishes Chicago History magazine. Written by historians and heavily illustrated, this publication focuses on Chicago's complex past and
78-543: A concert venue. Another commercial strip on Clark Street stretches from Diversey Parkway south to Armitage Avenue. 2122 North Clark Street was the site of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre , although the building no longer stands. Further to the south, Clark Street borders Lincoln Park for 0.6 miles until it reaches North Avenue and the Chicago History Museum . The street then passes through
104-632: A research institution to a public museum. Many of the items in Gunther's collection, in addition to being related to Chicago, were related to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War . These include Lincoln's deathbed, several other pieces of furniture from the room where he died in the Petersen House , and clothing that he and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln allegedly wore the evening of his assassination. The collection also contains
130-678: Is named for George Rogers Clark , an American Revolutionary War soldier who captured much of the Northwest Territory from the British . Within the Chicago Loop Clark Street is one of the original streets laid out by James Thompson in his 1830 plat of Chicago. North of the Loop, from North Avenue, it roughly follows part of the path of an Indian trail called Green Bay trail (later Green Bay Road) that ran all
156-656: Is the first crowdsourcing project allowing the public to give an exhibition assignment to an American museum. On January 19, 2006, the first passenger car to operate on the Chicago 'L' system in 1893 was transported to its new display location at the Chicago History Museum. Passengers could ride the 1893 'L' from the Loop to Hyde Park station for 5 cents to attend the World's Columbian Exposition upon
182-793: Is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago 's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times. Long known as the CHS, the society adopted the name, Chicago History Museum , in September 2006 for its public presence. Much of
208-574: The Andersonville Commercial Historic District . Graceland Cemetery is on the east side of Clark Street from Montrose Avenue to its entrance at Irving Park Road . The Metro concert hall is located at 3730 North Clark Street, 1 1 ⁄ 2 blocks north of Addison Street . At the intersection of Clark and Addison is Wrigley Field , home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and also occasionally used as
234-1018: The Near North Side , where in the River North neighborhood it passes the Rock N Roll McDonald's . Then it continues over the Chicago River at the Clark Street Bridge and through the Loop, where it passes the Thompson Center and its Monument with Standing Beast . Clark Street continues between the City Hall-County Building and the Daley Center and on to its termination at Cermak Road . The CTA 22 bus offers 24/7 service down Clark St from Howard St. to Harrison St. In addition, it touches
260-556: The "L" at Howard , Addison , Belmont , Clark/Division , Clark/Lake , LaSalle/Van Buren , and LaSalle . South of Polk Street, CTA bus route 24 is the sole CTA bus route along Clark Street (along with Pace bus routes 850, 851, and 855) before leaving at Archer Avenue east of the Cermak-Chinatown station. The entire route is in Cook County . Chicago History Museum Chicago 'L' : Chicago History Museum
286-519: The 18th century to the present. It contains numerous couture pieces, items created by well-known Chicago manufacturers and designers, and garments worn by notable residents. The museum offers a variety of programs, publications, and online resources related to Chicago and American history. This includes print and online editions of its collaborative effort the Encyclopedia of Chicago . The museum's Chicago Fire mobile app has content equivalent to
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#1732772933494312-657: The Chicago Historical Society's first collection was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, but the museum rose from the ashes like the city. Among its many documents which were lost in the fire was Abraham Lincoln 's final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation . (This draft had been donated by Lincoln to nurse Mary Livermore for her to auction to raise funds to build Chicago's Civil War Soldiers' Home ) After
338-457: The car and locomotive opened on September 30, 2006, as part of a larger remodeling project. The museum houses Chicago's most important collection of materials related to local history. The extensive research library includes books and other published materials, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and photos. It is open to the public, including students working on school projects. The costume collection numbers more than 50,000 pieces and dates from
364-496: The collection, covering everything from Chicago art to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Chicagoans to the city's fashion history. On October 14, 2013, the Chicago History Museum announced a project asking the public to furnish ideas for a future exhibition and reducing the most-often-submitted ideas to one assignment through a series of public votes. According to the American Alliance of Museums, this
390-524: The downtown hotels, the meat packing plants and the nearby factories then located near downtown industrial areas. Many original members of the Young Lords , a former street gang that transformed into a Latino civil and human rights movement, were sons and daughters of these immigrants and grew up in La Clark. From the intersection with Ashland Avenue south to Ainslie Street, Clark Street passes through
416-427: The earlier expansion in red brick to give a unified look to all three portions of the building. Both expansions occurred on the west side of the 1932 structure, leaving intact its original porticoed entrance facing Lincoln Park. The main entrance and reception hall, however, was moved to the new western addition facing Clark street. The modernist 1988 extension, in addition to expanded exhibition galleries, also contains
442-469: The fire, the Society began collecting new materials, which were stored in a building owned by J. Young Scammon , a prominent lawyer and member of the society. However, the building and the new collection were again destroyed by fire in 1874. The Chicago Historical Society built a fireproof building on its pre-1871 building-site at 632 North Dearborn Street. The replacement building opened in 1896 and housed
468-546: The line's opening. The vehicle, known as L Car #1, was cosmetically restored to its 1893 appearance before being transported to the museum where it was lifted into an opening created through a wall on the museum's second floor. The car's interior features include mahogany and rattan seats and etched glass windows. The L car joins the Pioneer , the first locomotive to operate in Chicago; a redesigned exhibition space to showcase
494-421: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clark_Street&oldid=998980089 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Clark Street (Chicago) Clark Street
520-412: The museum's store and public cafe. The museum explores both Chicago and American history. Exhibitions draw primarily on the museum's own collection, which numbers approximately 22 million holdings. Chicago: Crossroads of America is a 16,000-square-foot space that explores the city's development and its relationship to and influence on American history. Nearly 600 objects document the people and events of
546-459: The museum, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White , was built in 1932 by the WPA , with the aim of creating expanded public exhibition space. The 1932 Federal -style structure has been expanded twice. The first addition, clad in limestone, opened in 1972 and was designed by Alfred Shaw and Associates. The second addition, designed by Holabird and Root , was done in 1988 and included refacing
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#1732772933494572-482: The past 200 years. Facing Freedom focuses on eight American conflicts over freedom from the 1850s to the 1970s. The Abraham Lincoln alcoves highlight the sixteenth president's election, his leadership during the Civil War, and his assassination. The adjoining Portrait Gallery features an installation on Chicago during the time of Lincoln. The Sensing Chicago exhibition invites children to use their senses to discover
598-670: The past. The lobby displays various museum treasures. The newly restored dioramas are housed in the Tawani Foundation Diorama Hall. The Chicago dioramas feature Chicago's rise from a desolate frontier outpost to the bustling city that hosted the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Chicago Room, which overlooks the plaza in Lincoln Park behind the museum building, displays a collection of stained glass. Temporary exhibitions feature objects and artifacts from
624-572: The society for thirty-six years. The building was later added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Chicago Historical Society Building . Charles F. Gunther , a prominent Chicago collector, donated some items to the historical society. In 1920, the society purchased the remainder of the large historical collection from his estate, with the intention of changing its focus from merely
650-696: The table on which General Robert E. Lee signed his 1865 surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant , an official act that ended the American Civil War , at the McLean House in Appomattox , Virginia. In 2010, the museum was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame . After 36 years in the Henry Ives Cobb structure on North Dearborn Street, the museum and library moved to the current complex in Lincoln Park. The oldest part of
676-554: The way to Green Bay, Wisconsin . In the 1950s Clark Street between Ohio and Armitage Streets was a substantial neighborhood barrio home to the first Puerto Ricans in Chicago. It was unofficially known as La Clark by the Puerto Ricans that lived there arriving from the steel mills of Indiana and rural migrant camps. This was primarily during the Great Migration and war effort during and after World War II. They worked at
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