K-Town
Autumn is in full swing on the mean streets of Chicago's west side as the BRC local pulls over 16th Street on the 22nd Street runaround before making its delivery to Charter Steel.
This part of North Lawndale is locally known as "K-Town" for its street names beginning with the letter K (Kolmar, Kenton, Kilpatrick, Kilbourn, etc). The origin of this system dates back to 1913 when John D. Riley, Bureau of Maps superintendent, proposed naming north-south streets in western neighborhoods annexed by the city after letters respective to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana state line. Located in the eleventh mile from the state line, streets between Crawford (now Pulaski) and Cicero would be alphabetized in the eleventh letter, K, the twelfth mile in the twelfth letter, L, and so forth and so on. Only streets west of Crawford were subject to Riley's system.
K-Town
Autumn is in full swing on the mean streets of Chicago's west side as the BRC local pulls over 16th Street on the 22nd Street runaround before making its delivery to Charter Steel.
This part of North Lawndale is locally known as "K-Town" for its street names beginning with the letter K (Kolmar, Kenton, Kilpatrick, Kilbourn, etc). The origin of this system dates back to 1913 when John D. Riley, Bureau of Maps superintendent, proposed naming north-south streets in western neighborhoods annexed by the city after letters respective to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana state line. Located in the eleventh mile from the state line, streets between Crawford (now Pulaski) and Cicero would be alphabetized in the eleventh letter, K, the twelfth mile in the twelfth letter, L, and so forth and so on. Only streets west of Crawford were subject to Riley's system.