Right: Birds eye view looking south from North Branch Street. View north from the south bank of the River. Left: Pontoon bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River. The final terminus was the intersection of Armitage and Clark, about three blocks north of Lincoln and Wells.Ĭhicago Architectural Photo Company, January 1931.
At some point, a cost-saving zigzagging route was proposed, which would have involved condemning less property, but was eventually dropped in favor of the original plan. The city council voted against the improvement in 1902 because they found it to be too costly. Originally, it ran just south of the later route, terminating instead at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Wells Street. The initial route planned for the extension was slightly different than the one eventually adopted. It was approved by the Chicago Plan Commission in 1916, and the City Council in 1919. It was not until the Plan of Chicago, authored in 1909, which advocated such improvements, did the project gain momentum. However, improvements were not seriously considered until 1900. As early as 1880, the issue of extension from Union Park to Lincoln Park was a platform for aldermanic campaigns. Plans to extend Ogden beyond Union Park, and improve the rest of the thoroughfare, were floated around at least forty years before it finally happened in 1922. The name was changed in 1877-78 following the death of Chicago’s first mayor, William B. Built in 1848, it was ten miles long and ended in Riverside. Ogden Avenue was originally called Southwest Plank Road.
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