Ogden Avenue is a street extending from the Near West Side of Chicago to Montgomery, Illinois . It was named for William B. Ogden , the first mayor of Chicago.
21-612: 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 . 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
42-416: A jarrah tramway lay upon 2.3-metre-long (7.5 ft) sleepers , bounded by two 70-centimetre-wide (28 in) strips of jarrah planks for cart and carriage wheels. The 90-centimetre (35 in) gap was filled with limestone rubble to be used by horses. This reduced the cost of road building by up to 85% after its widespread introduction in 1908. However, increased traffic and suburban development rendered
63-605: Is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs , as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, and were commonly found in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th century. They were often built by turnpike companies. The Wittmoor bog trackway
84-607: Is internationally renowned for its engineering faculties. There were 316 physicians in private practice and 48 pharmacies in 2006. The borough and the quarter are served by the Hamburg S-Bahn rapid transit network which serves several stations. Hamburg-Harburg station is a significant rail hub in the city at which long-distance (IC/ICE) trains also stop. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), there were 69,262 private cars registered in
105-706: Is on display at the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg in Harburg, Hamburg . This type of plank road is known to have been used as early as 4,000 BC with, for example, the Post Track found in the Somerset levels near Glastonbury , England. This type of road was also constructed in Roman times. From the mid-1840s and to mid 1850s, the United States experienced
126-691: Is one of the few places where four U.S. Routes intersect. Further outside Chicago, a portion of the roadway from Harlem Avenue through the western suburbs carries U.S. Route 34 . U.S Route 34 carries the name of Ogden Av. from Chicago westbound to Aurora, Illinois . Ogden Av. 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, Illinois ; and Oswego, Illinois . [REDACTED] Media related to Ogden Avenue, Chicago at Wikimedia Commons 41°52′29.7″N 87°40′25.9″W / 41.874917°N 87.673861°W / 41.874917; -87.673861 Plank road A plank road
147-523: Is the name given to each of two historic plank roads or boardwalks , trackway No. I being discovered in 1898 and trackway No. II in 1904 in the Wittmoor bog in northern Hamburg , Germany. The trackways date to the 4th and 7th century AD, both linked the eastern and western shores of the formerly inaccessible, swampy bog. A part of the older trackway No. II dating to the period of the Roman Empire
168-712: The Plank Road Boom and a subsequent bust. The first plank road in the US was built in North Syracuse, New York , to transport salt and other goods; it appears to have copied earlier roads in Canada, which had copied Russian ones. The plank road boom, like many other early technologies, promised to transform the way people lived and worked and led to permissive changes in legislation seeking to spur development, speculative investment by private individuals, etc. Ultimately,
189-416: 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. Because of this, the intersection of U.S. Route 34 /Ogden Avenue and U.S. Route 12 / U.S. Route 20 / U.S. Route 45 /LaGrange Road
210-892: 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. The street intersects Interstate 90 / Interstate 94 / Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Interstate 294 / Tri-State Tollway in Western Springs , Interstate 355 in Lisle . In
231-698: The Boydton Plank Road from Petersburg southwards to just north of the North Carolina line. On the U.S. West Coast the Canyon Road of Portland, Oregon was another important but short artery and was built between 1851 and 1856. Kingston Road (Toronto) (Governor's Road) and Danforth Avenue , in Toronto , were plank roads built by the Don and Danforth Plank Road Company in the late 18th and
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#1732787529990252-515: The borough (124 crimes per 1000 people). These numbers include the Harburg quarter. Simultaneously with elections to the state parliament ( Bürgerschaft ), the 51-member Bezirksversammlung is elected to represent the citizens. The borough has 32 elementary schools and 26 secondary schools (e.g. Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium ); 3 elementary schools and 4 secondary schools are situated in the Harburg quarter. The Hamburg University of Technology
273-472: The early 19th centuries. Highway 2 from Toronto eastwards was a plank road in the 19th century that was later paved. In 1833 Scarborough-Markham Plank Road was authorized to build a road from Danforth Road to Highway 7 to Ringwood and east on Stouffville Road to Main Street Stouffville. Plank roads are used exclusively in the Canadian fishing outport of Harrington Harbour , Quebec because
294-476: The quarters of Eißendorf , Gut Moor , Harburg , Heimfeld, Langenbek, Marmstorf, Neuland , Rönneburg, Sinstorf and Wilstorf had belonged to the Kerngebiet Harburg (central area), while the quarters of Altenwerder , Cranz , Francop , Hausbruch, Moorburg , Neuenfelde and Neugraben-Fischbek had belonged to the precinct Süderelbe (south Elbe). On 1 March 2008 Harburg's quarter Wilhelmsburg
315-558: The river Elbe and covers parts of the port of Hamburg as well as residential and rural areas. It had a population of 169,221 as of 2020. Until 1937 Harburg belonged to the Prussian Province of Hanover , where it served as the capital of the Harburg district. In 1927 it was merged with the nearby city of Wilhelmsburg to form the city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg . Following the Greater Hamburg Act , Harburg
336-459: The routes unsatisfactory over time, and by the 1950s, they had been replaced with bitumen surfaced roads. Types of roads Harburg, Hamburg Harburg is a borough of the city of Hamburg , Germany. It is also the name of Harburg quarter in the borough, which used to be the capital of the Harburg district in Lower Saxony . The borough of Harburg lies on the southern banks of
357-765: The technology failed to live up to its promise, and millions of dollars in investments evaporated almost overnight. Three plank roads, the Hackensack , the Paterson , and the Newark , were major arteries in northern New Jersey . The roads travelled over the New Jersey Meadowlands , connecting the cities for which they were named to the Hudson River waterfront. U.S. Route 1 in Virginia follows
378-559: The town is built directly over a hilly, rocky shore. ATVs are the only mode of transportation there. In Perth , Western Australia , plank roads were important in the early growth of the agricultural and outer urban areas because of the distances imposed by swamps and the relatively-infertile soil. As it cost £2,000/km to construct roads by conventional means, the local councils, known as road boards, were experimenting with cheaper approaches to road building. A method called Jandakot Corduroy had been developed at Jandakot south-east of Perth:
399-448: Was 1,253 people per km . 18.9% were children under the age of 18, and 18.7% were 65 years of age or older. 20.1% were resident aliens. 12,785 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999 there were 94,273 households, of which 23.9% had children under the age of 18 living in them and 40% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.11. Population by year In 2006 there were 24,900 criminal offences in
420-539: Was incorporated into the city of Hamburg along with several other independent cities such as Altona . Despite its incorporation into Hamburg, Harburg continued to be the capital of the Hanoverian district of Harburg . In 1944, the district capital was moved to Winsen upon Luhe . On 1 January 2007 the Ortsämter (Precincts) were dissolved and the organisation of all boroughs of Hamburg was restructured. Previously
441-430: Was transferred to the borough Hamburg-Mitte in keeping with civic law. As of 2006, according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the borough of Harburg has a total area of 160.6 km , while the Harburg quarter has an area of 3.9 km . Along with the other boroughs of Hamburg, Harburg is divided into quarters: In 2006 there were 201,119 inhabitants in the borough. The population density
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