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In a moment we have plunged from retail into manufacturing. We have reached here it the north river, where it wanders among foundries, tanneries, coal docks, boiler factories, shipbuilding plants, and industries of a thousand kinds. From North avenue to Erie we are passing through one of the greatest industrial corners.

The air is perfumed and otherwise with commerce. Before the north shore channel was opened last winter the iridescent tide of the river here moved oilily, with bits of wood from the tanneries blowing hither and you upon its dusty surface. But no more. The government dredges are improving the dockage facilities which give Goose Island industries such an advantage. At Grand avenue, and for a block north and south, we have a glimpse of Italy.

It is all about us. Just east of the river and two blocks from us are Gault court and Milton street, the heart of the swarming north side Italian colony. Along the river is the north side negro center. It is a scenic spot, but do not let us forget that it adds as much to the wealth of the country as any equal stretch of street in the world. Wholesale Center of World. But now, we have crossed Grand avenue, we have entered another sort of manufacturing and wholesale center that is the largest in the world.

It extends southward as far as Harrison street and from the river on the east to a western boundary that is constantly moving further west. Here came the first of the wholesale houses, mail order organizations, and manufacturers who were crowded from the east side of the river and the loop. Gradually they worked westward, driving out the tenements. For years they would not cross Halsted street. But as factory after factory had gone in, and jobber after jobber, rentals have gone up and up, ground values have soared.

The industrial center has moved west till it rests on Halsted. As we pass along you will catch glimpses up and down the streets of high massive buildings that hum with commerce. Halsted street car conductors take in bales of transfers from the workers in these industrial plants.

A desparate effort was made in and to widen Halsted street. From river to river was the cry. Such men as Edward Horan, John M. Smyth, Andrew J. Graham, L. They tried to organize the street and to make it into a great north and south highway feet wide.

The front of the buildings on the west side of the street was to be shorn off for the improvement. It was claimed that, thus widened, the entire traffic leading into the loop from the west side would concentrate through Halsted. Speaking of wide streets, ladies and gentlemen, we will pause here. Glancing to the left and right you will see the famous Haymarket Square, popularly supposed to have been the scene of the anarchistic bomb throwing to which it gave name.

This is a widening of Randolph street, and is one of the busiest early morning intersections in the city. Here is the west side produce market and here, will be, if many influential elements have their way, the center of the new South Water street market after it is moved from the loop.

Three corners are among the most valuable in Halsted street. Three tenants can be found for every vacant store in the market. This, of course, is the oldest part of the street. Some big men have come out of Halsted street. At Washington and Halsted, the southwest corner, stands the old A.

Billings bank, where has built up the gas company which now serves the city. Much of the property along the street here has been held for years and is still held by the Billings, Morrison and other estates. Halsted Shares in Boom. The old Masonic temple at Halsted and Randolph is a landmark well known for many years. The Bijou and the Academy of Music are two old time show houses which have been on the street almost since the fire.

Halsted is was one of the west side streets to share in the business boom that followed that conflagration. The intersection of Halsted and Madison is the busiest street crossing on the west side.

It is a center of retail merchants, offices, and banks. It is also a lively amusement center and there is something doing day and night. Perhaps the highest ground values along the street are to be found here. Passing across Madison street, which you will please observe as the main east and west thoroughfare of the city, we enter a new phase of Halsted. We are approaching the Jewish center of Chicago. The Jewish people control the street, beginning at Washington and extending through to Harrison street, and own it between De Koven street and the Sixteenth street viaduct.

I will detain you for a moment to point out the basic characteristic of Halsted street development. It has been the street of the new nations. The city owes it much for what it has done, and will owe it much, much more before it has accomplished its work.

Bear in mind the various invasions of eastern Europe by the Huns, the Goths, the Visigoths—how these came out of the back of Europe, one after the other, and swept over the land. Halsted street today is passing through its invasions as did Europe in the days before Rome fell. But these invasions are peaceful and their chief significance is commercial. River Houses Homes of Poor. The housings and tenements west of the river have always been the home of the poor. First of the foreign invasions, the waves of immigration to fill these streets west of the river were the Irish and the Germans.

They came and they grew up about Halsted street. As they found themselves and got a start in life in this new country they gradually scattered into more desirable neighborhoods and in time produced many of the greatest men of the city and the country. In the places given up by these, the homes of the newly arrived, appeared in turn the Jews, Bohemians, Greeks, Italians, Turks, Armenians, Lithuanians, Letts, Slovaks, Russians, Croatians, and various other tribes of men.

The history of development of these races is the history of Halsted, especially south from Madison to Forty-seventh street. Among them, these races give Halsted the densest center of population in the United States, perhaps in the world. They crowd around the street to east and west. It is their highway. Unlike the American, they do not go so much to the loop centers for their buying. They buy of their neighbors. This is the great present strength of the Halsted retail sections.

It is also the promise of the street for future greatness, when the buying power of these new races has developed. Earliest among the new elements to follow the Germans and the Irish were the Jews and Bohemians.

But as we pass across Harrison street we find suddenly that these have been paired in their dominion of the street by a more recent invasion. Glance to the right and left now, ladies and gentlemen. What do you see? Strange names in windows these letters that remind you of the dear old college fraternity house. We are among the Greeks and the Turks.

For several short blocks along here past the Hull house the great Chicago Greek colony I buddied together in boarding houses. Split into four phases, the proposal will produce up to 2, residential units, office space, retail space, and a hotel.

Halsted Point at N Halsted Street. Rendering by Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. Phase 1, located on the northwest corner of the site, will include a story mixed-use tower.

Rising feet, the structure will hold ground-floor retail space as well as residential units. Commercial space on the lower floors will include approximately 17, square feet of space for an expected grocery store, with a remaining 7, square feet of undesignated retail. Phase 1 Tower at Halsted Point. As part of the first step in this development, Phase 1 will be approved alongside the overall masterplan.

As the first building, phase one will be a continuation of the urban landscape. The main residential lobby will be accessed from the east, with an access drive and lay-by for drop offs interior to the site. A secondary entrance is available on the north elevation.

Retail will face N Halsted Street and south into the site. The tower is being designed and planned for condos, but rentals are being considered. Residential space starts on the second floor with units on the northern side from floors two through five with parking in the rest of the podium.

The unit mix will include studios and one-, two-, and three-bedroom dwellings. Amenities will be located on the sixth floor. The design of the tower reflects the concept of rounded, sculpted forms using glass and metal panels. A rippled facade will be used on the podium. The dynamic cladding will screen parking. Moving clockwise around the property, Phase 2 is located on the northeastern corner along the Chicago River.

Split into two structures, this phase will produce a story mixed-use building and a story mixed-use tower. Rising feet and feet respectively, this phase will encompass 1, dwellings, with of those earmarked as affordable. Commercial space will include a potential daycare spanning approximately 5, square feet with 3, square feet of retail remaining.

Construction for this phase will also take months, with a start date yet to be determined. Rising feet, the building will hold residential units, with designated as affordable. October train timetable update. Some train routes will have their schedules updated effective October System status snapshot. Blue Line Minor Delays. Brown Line Planned Work. Green Line Normal Service. Orange Line Normal Service. Pink Line Normal Service. Purple Line Planned Work.

Yellow Line Normal Service.