Sheridan Road

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Sheridan Road is a major north-south thoroughfare that leads from Diversey Parkway[1] in Chicago, Illinois, north to the Illinois-Wisconsin border and beyond. Throughout most of its run, it is the easternmost north-south through street, closest to Lake Michigan. From Chicago, it passes through the cities of Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Fort Sheridan, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, North Chicago, Waukegan and Zion, until it reaches the Illinois-Wisconsin state line in Winthrop Harbor. In Wisconsin, the road leads north through Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha, until it ends near Racine.

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Sheridan Road was original approved by Congress (circa 1832) as a military road from Fort Dearborn in Chicago to Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[2]

The road was named for Philip Henry Sheridan, a general in the Civil War. [3]

There are several landmarks and places of interest along Sheridan Road. In order from southernmost to northernmost:

  1. ^ http://maps.google.com/maps?q=N%20Sheridan%20Rd%20%26%20W%20Diversey%20Pkwy%2C%20Chicago%2C%20IL%2060657
  2. ^ http://www.rpwrhs.org/rpwrhs/HistoryDetail.asp?id=10188&nexturl=History1840.asp
  3. ^ http://www.gapersblock.com/airbags/archives/cruisin_down_sheridan_road/


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