North Dearborn Street

North Dearborn Street runs through the Near North Side, an area reshaped by the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one. While much of the city burned, this neighborhood became a refuge for those seeking high ground and proximity to Lake Michigan. The streetscape is marked by a blend of late nineteenth-century architecture and modern high-rise development that arrived as the area’s residential character intensified through the nineteen fifties and sixties.