Rees and Rucker Map of Chicago - 1849[source]
A line on this 1849 map marks the route of the first railroad in Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union (1848), running west from the depot at Kinzie and Canal Streets, just northwest of Wolf Point at the fork of the Chicago River.
Known Streets
- 1st St (→ Superior St)
- 2nd St (→ Huron St)
- 3rd St (→ Peoria St)
- 3rd St (→ Erie St)
- 4th St (→ Lessing St)
- 4th St (→ Ohio St)
- 5th St (→ Sangamon St)
- 12th St (→ Roosevelt Rd)
- W Adams St
- Ann St (→ Racine Ave)
- S Archer Ave
- Asylum Pl (→ Webster Ave)
- W Blackhawk St
- Bridge St (→ Cullerton St)
- Buena Vista Pl (→ 25th St)
- S Calumet Ave
- S Canalport Ave
- N Carpenter St
- W Carroll Ave
- Cedar St (→ Maple St)
- Center St (→ Armitage Ave)
- Cherry St
- W Chestnut St
- E Chicago Ave
- W Chicago Ave
- Church St (→ Schiller St)
- S Clark St
- N Clybourn Ave
- Commerce St (→ 21st St)
- Cross St (→ 19th St)
- Curtis St (→ Aberdeen St)
- Davidson ? (→ 14th St)
- Division Ave (→ Banks St)
- Dodge St (vacated)
- Eldredge Ct (→ 9th St)
- W Elm St
- Elston Rd (→ Elston Ave)
- E Erie St
- W Erie St
- Ewing St (→ 12th Pl)
- Front St (→ Fry St)
- W Fullerton Ave
- W Goethe St
- Grand Haven Slip (→ Goethe St)
- Green St (→ Loomis St)
- N Green St
- S Grove St
- N Halsted St
- Hamilton Ave (→ Harrison St)
- Hardin Pl (→ 29th St)
- Harmon Ct (→ 11th St)
- W Harrison St
- Hickory St (→ Hillock Ave)
- Hickory St (→ Oak St)
- Hoosier Ave (retired)
- Hubbard Ct (→ Balbo Ave)
- E Huron St
- W Huron St
- E Illinois St
- W Illinois St
- S Indiana Ave
- Indiana St (→ Grand Ave)
- E Kinzie St
- W Kinzie St
- N Larrabee St
- Little Fort Rd (→ Lincoln Ave)
- S Lock St
- W Locust St
- S Lumber St
- Main St (→ Throop St)
- W Maple St
- Market St (→ Wacker Dr)
- Market St (→ Orleans St)
- W Maxwell St
- N May St
- Michigan St (→ Hubbard St c.1910)
- N Milwaukee Ave
- Monterey Pl (→ 24th St)
- N Morgan St
- Nevins St (→ Kingsbury St)
- New St (→ 17th St)
- W North Ave
- North St (→ 16th St)
- W Oak St
- E Ohio St
- W Ohio St
- Old St (→ 18th St)
- E Ontario St
- W Ontario St
- Owen St (→ Grand Ave)
- Palo Alto Pl (→ 23rd St)
- E Pearson St
- W Pearson St
- Peck Ct (→ 8th St)
- N Peoria St
- W Polk St
- Prairie Ave (→ Carroll Ave)
- S Prairie Ave
- Rees St (retired)
- Ridgely Pl (→ 31st St)
- Ringold Pl (→ Cermak Rd)
- Rio Grande Pl (→ 26th St)
- Roberts St (→ Larrabee St)
- N Sangamon St
- W Schiller St
- N Sedgwick St
- N Sheffield Ave
- South St (→ Cermak Rd)
- N Southport Ave
- Southwest Plank Rd (retired c.1877)
- State Rd (→ Archer Ave)
- E Superior St
- W Superior St
- W Taylor St
- Thorn St (→ Elm St)
- Townsend St (→ Hudson Ave)
- W Tyler St (→ Congress St 1872)
- S Union Ave
- W Van Buren St
- E Washington St
- W Washington St
- Water St (→ Eleanor St)
- White St (→ Locust St)
- Whitney St (→ Walton St)
- W Willow St
- Wolcott St (→ State St)
- Wright St (→ 14th Pl)