Halsted Street

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Halsted Street Soundex Code H423

800 W. from 3766 N. to 12960 S.

Wikipedia page about Halsted Street

Brothers William H. Halsted and Caleb Ogden Halsted were Philadelphia bankers who helped finance Mayor William Butler Ogden's real estate ventures. The two brothers visited Chicago only once and eventually foreclosed on much of their Chicago property, but not before Ogden made a financial killing.

Halsted Street was originally called First Street, then Dyer Street, in honor of physician Charles Volney Dyer, an abolitionist who helped thousands of slaves along the Underground Railway.

In its very earliest days, it was known as "Egyptian Road" and wound its way south to the downstate territory known as "Little Egypt." Then, in the early 1900s, part of the street became known as "Migration Mile" because of the many immigrant groups settled along it. A tourist on Halsted might have seen men haggling in the open-air market of Maxwell Street, another person selling Mexican ice cream from a Pushcart, and live lambs straining on tethers outside a Greek grocery.

Addresses

1700 Block

1751 N. Halsted Street, Bentley's Wine Bar

2600 Block

2621 N. Halstead Street, Augustus Burke Roofing Company, 1919.

3600 Block

3640 N. Halsted Street, Sexauer Garage