Talk:Roads and expressways in Chicago

message: I am sorely tempted to rewrite this section to be broken out based on the named highway corridor instead of the Interstate numbering.  The corridors were planned to fit Chicago; the Interstate numbering was overlaid on top of existing corridor planning after the fact and is therefore excessively confusing.  I think the article would be clearer if we based the discussion on the named corridors instead. Kelly Martin 21:09, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As a roadgeek that usually calls roads by their number, I agree. Treatments of roads in cities should concentrate on the name, giving the number almost as an afterthought. --SPUI (talk) 21:58, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Highways

message: Chicago has 8 streets per mile when going north-south, but 16 streets per mile when going east-west. How best to fit this information in with being confusing? Speciate 04:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blocks to a mile vs streets in a mile

message: does anyone have a citation for the claim that no streets are named after slave states or capitals? an IP user questioned Richmond and Austin specifically.LurkingInChicago 21:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I read an article in the Chicago Яeader years ago that said that the guys who named the streets were abolitionists. It is possible that streets outside the city limits at that time now have such names. Austin is not named after the capital of Texas. I'll leave it up until a non-anonymous editor takes it down. Speciate 21:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Fine, but you should be aware that the Chicago Яeader is a reputable source, which has broken many a story that the Trib and Sun-Times wouldn't touch, but one has to pay to look at their old articles online. Speciate 00:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: slavery mention

message: When reporting Chicago street addresses on Chicago pages here on Wikipedia, please don't spell out North, South, East or West. Just type N., S., E. or W. We have a few streets, like North Avenue, East End Avenue, South Shore Drive, and South Chicago Avenue, that have direction words within their names, so they need to have their name spelled out for contrast. This is also useful to distinguish buildings with address-like names, such as 900 North Michigan and One North LaSalle, from actual addresses.
Most streets in the city have a stable position in the numbering system; for example, Fullerton Avenue is "2400 North". "Diagonals" are those streets which don't have such a position for all or some of their lengths. However, the addresses along a diagonal are given as being N., S., E. or W, not as NW or some such. Diagonals keep their cardinality for their entire lengths, with the exceptions of Ogden Avenue and Archer Avenue, which change from N to W and from S to W, repectively. 
Please always report and spell out the words Avenue, Street, Boulevard, Drive, Road, Place, Court, Park, Parkway, Highway, etc. Give numbered streets as 13th or 53rd, etc, rather than Thirteenth or Fifty-third. There is no need for superscripting, however. 
Finally, always describe a street from North to South and from West to East rather than radiating out from the Loop, unless you are describing its known growth history. Speciate 23:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting street names and addresses within articles

message: ...lists that Wacker is th eonly street with buildings on all four cardinal directions. But does not Sheridan Road have the same feature, albeit for short intervals?Gary Joseph (talk) 03:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting Facts

message: I don't think Central St and Linden Ave respectively represent 10400 N and 11200 N in the Chicago grid. For one thing, the suburbs in which these streets are located don't use Chicago's grid system and, regardless, they don't correspond to these locations on a grid overlay of the metro area. I assume whoever added these was had the Purple Line in mind, but "El" stops don't necessarily correspond to major mile streets. Also, (Des Plaines) River Road, listed as 9400 W, is a diagonal.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicagocago (talk • contribs) 21:49, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Central St/Linden Ave as continuations of grid system 

message: I'm of the opinion that the "Minor street letter" column in the Major mile streets table should be removed in its entirety.  The phenomenon of minor streets all using the same initial letter based on their distance from the Indiana state line (Karlov, Kildare, Kilbourn, et al.) only exists in a relatively small section of the city, and is more than adequately explained in the text of the preceding Street names section.  Besides, the column appears to confuse editors, who have extended the lettering to River Road ("R") and 25th Ave./Rose Street ("R-S") even though I can find no sign that the minor streets continue this initial-letter convention that far west.  For now, I have removed the "R" and "R-S" notations, but will hold off on removing the entire column pending further discussion. Kevin Forsyth (talk) 19:13, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Lacking any dissent, I'll be bold. Kevin Forsyth (talk) 22:45, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Minor street letter" in table 

message: The map of interstates is outdated since it doesn't show the southern extension of Interstate 355--Orestek (talk) 04:35, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated map 

message: Is the 8000N mile street (Oakton) or Howard?  It was certainly Howard when I was in school.... MarkBernstein (talk) 19:23, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  8000N 

message: The generic term in standard usage by long term residents in the Chicago metro area for multi-lane limited access divided highways is "expressway." Those kinds of highways are sometimes further identified by other terms like "tollway", "skyway", "drive" (LSD) and "freeway". Like the "Skyway" there is only one "freeway" in the Chicago area.
Therefore the name of this Wikipedia entry is a colloquial misnomer. It is also a factual misnomer there being only one so-called "freeway." The name of this article should be "Roads and Expressways". Wegerje (talk) 18:20, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: done (albeit a bit late). Ryecatcher773 (talk) 06:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Roads and Expressways in Chicago

message: I removed the narrative recently added about Red Light cameras. I did so due to the fact that it was not in keeping with the intent if the article, which is to summarize the actual roads and highways. The section was also accusatory in nature and not neutral in tone.
While the section may well have been true it is not appropriate for this article.N9jig (talk) 02:32, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red Light Cameras