State Street (Chicago)

State Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago. It represents 0 East/West in the city, as it is believed to be the original location of how far inland Lake Michigan went in downtown Chicago before the Great Chicago Fire happened. Unlike other North-South thoroughfares, State Street is named a street instead of an avenue to help people remember that it is 0 East/West in Chicago.

For a certain distance, the Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) Red Line runs under State Street.

0 North/South in Chicago is Madison Street, which has included such buildings as the former Chicago Stadium and currently the United Center, both nicknamed the "Madhouse on Madison".

State Street (Chicago) Media

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  State Street at Madison Street, 1897

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  CTA route 29 bus at State Street and 24th Place

• Reliance Building (1890), 32 N. State Street

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  Chicago Bee Building, 3647-55 S. State

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  Image of State Street looking north from Quincy Street, Chicago, IL

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  State Street circa the late 19th century

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  State Street in 1949 as photographed by Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine

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  1952 photograph of State Street in Chicago, taken right near the Palmer House Hotel entrance. A surface lines streetcar is visible in the street traffic

• State Street at Madison StreetCyberViewX v5.16.55*Model Code=58*F/W Version=1.21 Photography by Victor Albert Grigas (1919-2017)