#chicago #southloop #downtown
Join this channel to get access to perks:
Help me get my next car this one is getting older
Subscribe @Daily Drive Tours UK for London city tours.
Mostly residential and collegiate, the Near West Side is home to Maxwell Street, the birthplace of Chicago Blues and the Polish sausage sandwich. Nearby is a long-running Sunday market and Hull House museum, a former immigrant settlement founded by reformer Jane Addams. Michael Jordan made his name at the United Center, where the Bulls and Blackhawks play. Italian restaurants cluster on Taylor Street in Little Italy.
Set next to Museum Campus and including historic Printers Row, the large South Loop is a lively hub of classic bars and diverse restaurants, plus longtime clubs Jazz Showcase and Buddy Guy’s Legends. Students and creative types frequent the Museum of Contemporary Photography, while blues label Chess Records offers tours of its recording studio. Prairie Avenue Historic District is lined with 19th-century mansions.
According to the results of a 1978 survey which asked residents the name of their neighborhood and its boundaries, the approximate borders for the Heart of Chicago neighborhood are the BNSF Railway to the north, South Ashland Avenue to the east, Interstate 55 to the south, and South Western Avenue to the west. Along Oakley Boulevard, from 24th Street to 25th Street, is found a group of restaurants which remain as a residue of a previously large pocket of Northern Italians. In 1890, the McCormick Reaper factory at Western Avenue and the south branch of the river recruited skilled machine operators from Northern Provinces of Italy (Tuscany, Torino, Milano), offering them salaries twice that available in Italy and a paid transatlantic ship ticket. The community grew as workers paid for relatives to join them. St. Michael’s parish on 25th street was their community center. The archdiocese closed that parish in 2000. Restaurants opened by these families that remain, as of 2019, include on Oakley Boulevard: Bruna’s (1933), Bacchanalia’s (1971), La Fontanella (1974), Ignotz’s (1999) and on Western Avenue Il Vicinato (1983).
The Near North Side is home to iconic skyscrapers like the 1920s Wrigley Building, as well as 360 Chicago, a 94th-floor observation deck. Both are on the “Magnificent Mile” section of North Michigan Avenue, along with posh boutiques and department stores. The Navy Pier lakefront attraction has rides, casual dining, and cruises, and the huge Museum of Contemporary Art stages innovative exhibitions.
00:00 Near west side to south loop
16:00 South Loop to heart of of chicago
31:00 Heart of chicago to near north