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Chicago's Street of Streets
BARBARA
Michigan·
A venue
CONSODINE
the
is
a sophisticated
State
sails
Street
of white
is a queen.
yachts
day
with
laughter
just in talking.
Men and women sit on
the stairs of their homeS and look at the
And in those looks is
world passing by.
no bitterness, but merely friendship for
on
all.
She is an
Halsted. Street is primarily
street
and a lucky
for few merThe most
have ever failed here.
chants
colorful section is that leading south from
Madison to about Fourteenth
o a strang er wandering through the
cit
Y
she
m'h
tho
ig t appear drab and dirty, but
.
d IS is not so to natives
of Chicago.
She
parts of the world.
and
Greek
fooes not compare with Michigan Avenue
r beauty
.
and
f
' nor with
State Street for fame
ortune,
but
.
. of her shabbiness
and h
.
m spite
the
altar
there
street
of
air
over
churches,
and
markets
from
complete
stained
east
all
stacked
attractively
old cotton dress.
religioUS
off Halsted
Here is sold
of the Virgin or
goods
are
on wooden stands
is a great
street.
with filthy hands
It is a dreamer,
with time for a smile.
(25)
west
These
dent, a fighter, eternally
and fill
windows.
Down the
selling
Street.
MacArthur.
a thoroughbred
to this wind.
to
gloves, tomatoes, shoes, blank-
the street.
Yes, Halsted
glue
even
of all are the open
and
ets, suits, spices, pictures
General
glass
for funerals.
on Maxwell
everything,
when there is
germs; and the'
the red bricks
Street, where
foods
Here we find a stese
one finds a store
Street
can Winter or summer, fall or spring, one
.
the see thousa n d s of children
playing in
street
and
run
on the sidewalks.
They
merrily
selling
goods.
Most picturesque
the wind off
strong
the lake, and there is a
, cool wiIIId in State Street that
people en'
Cold S JOy whether the day is hot or
eldom is th ere a wind on a hot
da . .
tanneries,
stores
These are rented
t 0 c'hicago love to walk up
and Visitors
d
own Michigan Avenue and breathe
it Y
bl III Halsted S treet, but
OWs dus t , debris
and
smells fro
'
f
m stock yards
actories c1"mg desperately '
are
selling American ice cream and soft drinks
L
she is the happiest
a business
street,
But the street w hiich typifies Chicagoand Ther people is Halsted Street.
er ug1"mess,
e three.
song.
or in front of the stores, and have pleasure
eXciting,
color ful, glamorous darling with
the
pleasures and needs of millions of
subjects on her mind.
th
and
People stand on the corners of the street,
Young
J<a d y who strolls
1:>
from Roosevelt
J:l.oad u P toward th G
sb I
e
old Coast with one
onau der lowered . Across this shoulder
thee sees the green beauty of the park and
th masts and
e blue Iak e.
dull
in
It is
and an
a stu-
busy, but always