![]() Streeter illegally claimed the waterfront landfill as his own. It is also named after wannabe gunrunner and squatter George “Cap” Streeter, who docked his ship at the mouth of the Chicago River in the 1880s.īack then, the area was little more than a shifting sandbar (nicknamed “the Sands”), but as the city dumped its construction rubble there in the year following the Great Fire, it grew to 180 acres. Located just east of the Magnificent Mile, Streeterville is one of Chicago’s most expensive high-rise neighborhoods. Here are the surprising stories behind the names of 17 well-known Chicago neighborhoods. They involve larger-than-life personalities, contradictory local folklore, the movement of immigrants, and, sometimes, just clever marketing on the part of land speculators and developers. But others are less expected-and far more entertaining. ![]() Some of the origin stories are fairly obvious: the West Loop and South Loop are, respectively, west and south of the Loop Wrigleyville is next to Wrigley Field. While most Chicagoans know the city got its name from shikaakwa, an American Indian word for the pungent wild onions and leeks that grew in the area, few can tell you how Chicago’s many neighborhoods got their names. ![]()
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