Chicago mile x mile

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This is the web version of a set of photographs that map chicago's famous and rarely-comprimising grid into 212 4"x6" snapshots. According to the Summer 2001 CTA bus & rail map,

"Chicago street numbers start at State and Madison downtown. State Street divides east and west addresses, and Madison Street divides north and south addresses. ... One mile is equal to 800 street numbers."

I took pictures at intersections at every mile street - streets numbered with multiples of 800. The south side warps the numbering system; Roosevelt Road is one mile of south of Madison and numbered 1200. The next mile you are greeted the street named for the assassinated mayor Anton Cermak, which is numbered 2200. after that the numbering system returns to 800 a mile. i took these pictures during the second warmest and sunniest january in chicago in the last 135 years, between 1/2/02 and 1/22/02. I used with a lomo smenha loaded with kodak and fuji 100, 200 and 400 film. The Walgreen's at Roosevelt and Canal (not a mile intersection) developed my film. I drove a 1990 mazda mpv and, on one occasion, a 1995 toyota corolla. cool technical disclosure. I saw dirt roads, hundreds of bungalows, indiana, powerplants, overpasses, white terracotta, an giant fiberglass indian with a 'dental care' sign on 55th? going West (to Midway)beyond Garfield station?, gas stations, harold's chicken shacks, many many of my fellow chicagoans. lovely.

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