S Calumet Ave

Location

Predecessors

• Valliquette St (retired)

Appears in

• Rees and Rucker Map of Chicago (1849)
• Rand, McNally & Co.'s Map of the Central Portion of Chicago (1895)

Might appear within

• Rascher's Atlas of the North Half of Hyde Park v.1 (1890)
• Rascher's Atlas of the North Half of Hyde Park v.2 (1890)
• Sanborn 1895 v. 16
• Sanborn 1910 v. E
• Sanborn 1911 v. G
• Sanborn 1912 v. 4
• Sanborn 1938 v. 41
• Sanborn 1939 v. 42
• Sanborn 1947 v. 47

Data Issues

• unconfirmed
• no start date

Similarly named streets

• S Calumet Pkwy
• Calumet Ave (→ Bensley Ave)
• Calumet Ave (→ Oliphant Ave)
• Calumet Ave (→ Forest Ave)
• Calumet Ave (→ Lake Park Ave)

Source Notes

• CHS "Chicago Streets" Document:

  «Calumet Ave., 327E 1800 to 13600S. Means Pipe of Peace. The pipe used by the Indians to seal peace treaties. Norman-French form of the literary French “chalumet” meaning a shepard’s pipe. Valliquette St.»

Edit History

• import | tew | imported from city data portal and CHS "Street Names" document