North Shore Avenue
North Shore Avenue Soundex Code N630
6700 N., from 1030 W. to 7766 W. This street is in BOTH, Rogers Park and West Ridge
The City Council passed a lengthy ordinance January 14, 1895, rationalizing the street naming system. Because the street did not exist at this time, there are no addresses that need converting.
This street is NOT listed in the 1895, 1897, 1898, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904 Chicago Blue Book.
This street runs east as far as the shore of Lake Michigan on the North Side, hence its name. Or is this the only explanation?
There has been discussion on the origin of this name. The Chicago Park District has a different opinion on the origin. On its website, the Chicago Park District claims that:
"North Shore Avenue apparently takes its name from the former Town ? of North Shore that later became part of Rogers Park." However the Chicago Public Library cannot find any reference to said town. Here is their reply:
According to Chicago's Crabgrass Communities, The History of the Independent Suburbs and Their Post Offices That Became Part of Chicago. by Harvey M. Karlen, 1992, the township of Ridgeville was established in 1850. The township of Rogers Park was established in 1857 from part of Ridgeville. The town of North Shore is not mentioned.
We [the Chicago Public Library] are not aware of the Chicago Park District's source of information, but it may be a paraphrase of the Municipal Reference Collection's "Chicago Street Names Index," which says that North Shore Avenue was "named for the North Shore of Lake Michigan which is located on North Side of Chicago, also known as the Town of North Shore, now Rogers Park."
According to the Historical Register of Park Districts, the North Shore Park District, covering Rogers Park, was established in 1895, apparently the same year North Shore Avenue was named. Thus, there may be some support for the idea that Rogers Park was also known as North Shore.
Rogers Park Addresses
1000 Block
1031 W. North Shore Avenue is an Apartment Building, circa September 1976.
1057 W. North Shore Avenue, Barton L. Little, 1919.
1058 W. North Shore Avenue, J.B. Kilroy, Cement Contractor, 1919.
1059 W. North Shore Avenue, Alfred W. Bishop, 1919.
1059 W. North Shore Avenue, Sidney D. Martin, 1919.
1061 W. North Shore Avenue, Sam Albrecht, 1919.
1061 W. North Shore Avenue, William E. Mason, Jr., 1919.
1063 W. North Shore Avenue, J.E. Dewey, 1919.
1065 W. North Shore Avenue, Isaac H. Levey, 1919.
1065 W. North Shore Avenue, J.L. Lieberman, 1919.
1100 Block
1101 W. North Shore Avenue, J.W. Frederich,1919.
1101 W. North Shore Avenue, Walt A. Hansen, 1919.
1103 W. North Shore Avenue, Thompson Ross, 1917.
1103 W. North Shore Avenue, George H. Bridges, 1919.
1103 W. North Shore Avenue, Renne Caget, 1919.
1103 W. North Shore Avenue, Sarah A. Guilford, 1919.
1107 W. North Shore Avenue, Peter J. Byrne, 1919.
1107 W. North Shore Avenue, Charles W. McLane, 1919.
1108 W. North Shore Avenue, Winda Jurs, 1919.
1109 W. North Shore Avenue, Elmer L. Arminger, 1919.
1109 W. North Shore Avenue, P.A. Bonfig, 1919.
1109 W. North Shore Avenue, G.A. Hoene, 1919.
1109 W. North Shore Avenue, The Bike Room Gallery, 2016.
1111 W. North Shore Avenue, George H. Becker, 1919.
1111 W. North Shore Avenue, O.W. Huncke, 1919.
1116 W. North Shore Avenue is an Apartment Building in October 1990.
1117 W. North Shore Avenue, Frank J. Kain, 1919.
1119 W. North Shore Avenue, James T. Boyle, 1919.
1119 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. James Horan, 1919.
1128 W. North Shore Avenue, John Edward Brennan, 1917.
1128 W. North Shore Avenue, John W. Maguire, 1919.
1128 W. North Shore Avenue, Patrick McHugh, 1919.
1130 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. Theodore Arnold, 1919.
1130 W. North Shore Avenue, Patrick O'B. Curtin, 1919.
1130 W. North Shore Avenue, John T. McGrath, 1919.
1133 W. North Shore Avenue, home of John F. Harding circa 1917.
1133 W. North Shore Avenue, Clifton C. Coldren, 1919.
1133 W. North Shore Avenue, John P. Harding, 1919.
1137 W. North Shore Avenue, Edward P. Koeller, 1919.
1143 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. Harry M. Graham, 1919.
1149 W. North Shore Avenue, Thomas F. Burke, 1919.
1149 W. North Shore Avenue, Adam Keim, 1919.
1151 W. North Shore Avenue, A.B. Becker, 1919.
1200 Block
1209 W. North Shore Avenue, Joseph S. Bergfors, Auto Repairing, 1919.
1212 W. North Shore Avenue, Charles F. Balch, 1919.
1212 W. North Shore Avenue, John E. Clare, 1919.
1212 W. North Shore Avenue, M.E. Clare, 1919.
1219 W. North Shore Avenue, James Heyn, 1919.
1222 W. North Shore Avenue, David B. Gibson, 1919.
1222 W. North Shore Avenue, C.J. Knapp, 1919.
1223 W. North Shore Avenue, Leon Romanski, 1917.
1223 W. North Shore Avenue, W.C. Kneibes, 1919.
1224 W. North Shore Avenue, Felix S. Mitchell, 1917.
1224 W. North Shore Avenue, Samuel Backstrom, 1919.
1225 W. North Shore Avenue, John McIntosch, 1919.
1226 W. North Shore Avenue, Paul J. Cafferty, 1919.
1226 W. North Shore Avenue, F.H. Johnston, 1919.
1227 W. North Shore Avenue, Carl Thorsten Strandberg, 1905.
1227 W. North Shore Avenue, William Bold, 1919.
1229 W. North Shore Avenue, W.A. Brennan, 1919.
1230 W. North Shore Avenue, A.C. Coffey, 1919.
1230 W. North Shore Avenue, Helen Hurley, 1919.
1230 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. James M. Hurley, 1919.
1233 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. Annie Conway, 1919.
1233 W. North Shore Avenue, Frank G. Hall, 1919.
1234 W. North Shore Avenue, John J. Coyle, 1919.
1234 W. North Shore Avenue, Rose McMahon, 1919.
1236 W. North Shore Avenue, Dr. Claude Biopelle Gouin Forrester, 1917.
1236 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. M.E. Kenney, 1919.
1236 W. North Shore Avenue, W.J. Kenney, 1919.
1236 W. North Shore Avenue, Charles F. Ludington, 1919.
1236 W. North Shore Avenue, Mary McGrath, 1919.
1237 W. North Shore Avenue, Michael H. Culhane, 1919.
1244 W. North Shore Avenue, Michael J. Gleason, 1919.
1244 W. North Shore Avenue, John W. Hayde, 1919.
1245 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. D.E. Cain, 1919.
1246 W. North Shore Avenue, Roy L. Crandall, 1919.
1246 W. North Shore Avenue, Nellie E. McCracken, 1919.
1247 W. North Shore Avenue, John W. Cremerius, 1919.
1251 W. North Shore Avenue, Rody Cunniff, 1919.
1251 W. North Shore Avenue, George W. Lincoln, 1919.
1254 W. North Shore Avenue, Miss M.A. Dooley, 1919.
1255 W. North Shore Avenue, John F. Hogan, 1919.
1255 W. North Shore Avenue, William Lau, 1919.
1256 W. North Shore Avenue, John D. Carter, 1919.
1256 W. North Shore Avenue, Basil P. Edwardes, 1919.
1262 W. North Shore Avenue, Joe Heilbron, 1919.
1263 W. North Shore Avenue, Raymond C. Coppock, 1919.
1263 W. North Shore Avenue, O.B. DuRand, 1919.
1264 W. North Shore Avenue, P.L. Dorner, 1919.
1264 W. North Shore Avenue, Joseph A. Kowalski, 1919.
1265 W. North Shore Avenue, John D. Clark, 1919.
1265 W. North Shore Avenue, Joseph D. Daly, 1919.
1300 Block
1301 W. North Shore Avenue, Edmund J. Benning, 1919.
1301 W. North Shore Avenue, Caesar Bollaret, 1919.
1301 W. North Shore Avenue, Charles W. Livingston, 1919.
1301 W. North Shore Avenue, William Joseph Maher, 1919.
1303 W. North Shore Avenue, Mark H. Killen, 1919.
1306 W. North Shore Avenue, Andrew M. Dahlquist, 1919.
1306 W. North Shore Avenue Peter C. Kugler, 1919.
1307 W. North Shore Avenue, David N.C. Astenius, 1919.
1307 W. North Shore Avenue, Vincent J. Dolan, 1919.
1308 W. North Shore Avenue, John R. Latham, 1919.
1309 W. North Shore Avenue, John R. Cole, 1919.
1309 W. North Shore Avenue, Harvey R. Edwards, 1919.
1309 W. North Shore Avenue, J.B. Foley-2, 1919.
1310 W. North Shore Avenue, L.W. Cody, 1919.
1312 W. North Shore Avenue, Herbert V. Bernard, 1919.
1312 W. North Shore Avenue, J.A. Browne, 1919.
1312 W. North Shore Avenue, V.G. Christmann, 1919.
1312 W. North Shore Avenue, L.M. Demmer, 1919.
1314 W. North Shore Avenue, J.A. Johnston, 1919.
1314 W. North Shore Avenue, George E. May, 1919.
1316 W. North Shore Avenue, Emil H. Hanson, 1919.
1318 W. North Shore Avenue, Herman Behrens, 1919.
1325 W. North Shore Avenue, Walter E. Bischoff, 1919.
1325 W. North Shore Avenue, Alfred J. Conlan, 1919.
1325 W. North Shore Avenue, E.C. Kesler, 1919.
1325 W. North Shore Avenue, W.G. McCoy, 1919.
1327 W. North Shore Avenue, George C. Bradford, 1919.
1329 W. North Shore Avenue, Manuel Ginsburg, 1919.
1329 W. North Shore Avenue, C.F. Guthrie, 1919.
1329 W. North Shore Avenue, Howard A. Jones, 1919.
1329 W. North Shore Avenue, Frank Kiley, 1919.
1329 W. North Shore Avenue, S.M. McCormick, 1919.
1331 W. North Shore Avenue, A. Ginsburg, 1919.
1331 W. North Shore Avenue, James E. Harden, 1919.
1333 W. North Shore Avenue, Marvin A. Bettman, 1919.
1333 W. North Shore Avenue, Leon C. Hunt, 1919.
1339 W. North Shore Avenue, R. Gambrill, Jr., 1919.
1339 W. North Shore Avenue, George A. Jackson, Jr., 1919.
1341 W. North Shore Avenue, E.A. McGovern, 1919.
1343 W. North Shore Avenue, James Donegan, 1919.
1345 W. North Shore Avenue, James M. Corbett, 1919.
1345 W. North Shore Avenue, Leo W. Early, 1919.
1345 W. North Shore Avenue, A. Hugh Maclsaac, 1919.
1400 Block
1439 W. North Shore Avenue, James P. Connell, 1919.
1439 W. North Shore Avenue, Charles R. Crowell, 1919.
1441 W. North Shore Avenue, Herbert L. Hochschild, 1919.
1441 W. North Shore Avenue, Ernest L. McHenry, 1919.
1500 Block
1514 W. North Shore Avenue, Arthur S. Fielding, 1919.
1514 W. North Shore Avenue, Miss Jeanne Martin, 1919.
1514 W. North Shore Avenue, James D. McCormick, 1919.
1516 W. North Shore Avenue, William A. Conway, 1919.
1516 W. North Shore Avenue, Marion G. Hoy, 1919.
1525 W. North Shore Avenue has an unidentified owner, no date given.
1540 W. North Shore Avenue, John Bernritter, 1919.
1540 W. North Shore Avenue, Elmer L. Carlson 2, 1919.
1600 Block
1609 W. North Shore Avenue, Sidney Gerrard, 1919.
1609 W. North Shore Avenue, A.T. Hammill, 1919.
1617 W. North Shore Avenue, George A. LaRue, 1919.
1617 W. North Shore Avenue, John Lichtenthal, 1919.
1619 W. North Shore Avenue, Wilbur K. Abernathy, 1919.
1619 W. North Shore Avenue, T.R. Brownlee Jr., 1919.
1620 W. North Shore Avenue, John H. LaFramboise, 1919.
1621 W. North Shore Avenue, H.C. Coppock, 1919.
1621 W. North Shore Avenue, Harry W. Loefgren, 1919.
1623 W. North Shore Avenue, Adela Laue, 1919.
1623 W. North Shore Avenue, Mrs. Elizabeth Laue, 1919.
1623 W. North Shore Avenue, George M. Lewis, 1919.
1624 W. North Shore Avenue, August F. Hoope, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, Harry L. Collins, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, Frank V. Dowd, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, E.L. Fish, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, Miss J.L. Gage, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, Robert F. Gordon, 1919.
1625 W. North Shore Avenue, Thomas A. Harrison, 1919.
1626 W. North Shore Avenue, Herman Lerner, 1919.
1629 W. North Shore Avenue, Dorothy M. Blackall, 1919.
1629 W. North Shore Avenue, William E. Cosgrove, 1919.
1629 W. North Shore Avenue, S. Herbst, 1919.
1629 W. North Shore Avenue, H.W. Loveday, 1919.
1630 W. North Shore Avenue, Henry W. Manske, 1919.
1700 Block
1725 W. North Shore Avenue, J.J. Borchardt, 1919.
1730 W. North Shore Avenue, Edwin Edlund, 1919.
1730 W. North Shore Avenue, E.C. Hoyt, 1919.
1732 W. North Shore Avenue, G.W. Graham, 1919.
1732 W. North Shore Avenue, L.V. Hanson, 1919.
1735 W. North Shore Avenue is the Emmanuel Church Of God In Jesus Christ, Inc..
1755 W. North Shore Avenue, Arthur J. Goddard, 1919.
1755 W. North Shore Avenue, Edwin G. Goddard, 1919.
1755 W. North Shore Avenue, H.C. Hensel, 1919.
1758 W. North Shore Avenue, R.E. Berryman, 1919.
1758 W. North Shore Avenue, H.E. Emerson, 1919.
West Ridge Addresses
2800 Block
2800 W. North Shore Avenue, Congregation Kins-West Rogers Park
3000 Block
3045 W. North Shore Avenue was the location of the North Shore gas holder.
