ATDTDA (2): Clark Street (37.38)

[Tim Strzechowski]

A close business associate followed, confronted, and publicly denounced him, knocking his hat off and kicking it into the middle of Clark Street, where it was run over by a beer wagon (p. 37).


from Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee.  _Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names_.  Loyola U Press: Chicago, 1988.
 
Clark Street
100 West at 2138 South to 1800 West at 7553 North
 
Formerly Green Bay Road, this street was named for General George Rogers Clark (1752-1818) a Revolutionary War hero who captured much of the Northwest Territory, including the present state of Illinois, from the British (p. 23).


Also:

Chicago's Clark Street is occasionally a diagonal, and occasionally a 
north-south street running near the shore of Lake Michigan from the city 
limits with Evanston (where it is called Chicago Avenue, and further 
north, Green Bay Road) south to Cermak Road. Even as a diagonal it runs 
more north than northwest. Originally an Indian trail, it ran all the 
way to Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is named for George Rogers Clark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Street_(Chicago)


George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was the 
preeminent American military leader on the northwestern frontier during 
the American Revolutionary War. Clark was one of the great American 
military heroes, hailed as the conqueror of the Northwest Territory at the 
apex of his fame. His younger brother William was one of the leaders of 
the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

[...]

In 1772, as a twenty-year-old surveyor, Clark made his first trip into 
what would become Kentucky, one of thousands of settlers entering the 
area as a result of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768. Indians living 
in the Ohio Country had not been party to that treaty, which ceded their 
Kentucky hunting grounds. The violence that resulted eventually 
culminated in Lord Dunmore's War, in which Clark played a small role.