Fifth Avenue

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By 1870, Wells Street had developed such a miserable reputation for debauchery, given its many brothels, that the city renamed it Fifth Avenue in hopes that Chicago's Fifth Avenue would develop the grandeur and class of New York City's Fifth Avenue. It didn't, and in 1918, the original name was restored.

There is a Fifth Avenue still existing in Chicago.