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state was the main road for going downstate madison was our president out by o'hare pacifc and bryn mawr doesn't exist its in an unicorporated part inside town pacific and belmont hosts us hair force an old ladies beauty salon bryn mawr stops at a forest preserve and doesnt go through western is the longest street in the city broadway takes over ashland past addison and then 800 w is called clarendon clark is 1600 w for a few blocks in rogers park too many corners to count had payless shoe sources pulaski used to be crawford its still crawford in the suburbs it changes at devon narragansett turns into nagle at about lawrence, which is called gunnison for a while up there probably used to be something nice at kedzie and belmont nows it's the expressway there's an overpass passing over belmont and western same thing at ashland and pershing which doesn't go through to cicero theres another overpass and a railroad yard and a power plant there probably wasn't ever anything nice at ashland and 31 which is also overpassed at cicero 71st is an access road for a kmart or was it a walmart ashland stops and decides to be diagonal and called beverly for a while at 95th in beverly so 1600 w and 103rd is at prospect a typical bungalow street 111th in pullman doesnt experience cottage grove there is a blue police department there cottage grove is diagonal here and at 103rd 800 e is a little st called corliss 'da candy & snack shop' is there at state and 103rd you can visit the classy d barber salon also happy liquors cottage grove and 79 there is a little church under a skyway ramp at state and 79 and at state and stony island a mies-like bank and two very-friendly looking cafes natives call the street stony but cottage grove is not called just cottage or just grove irving park is called irving or irving park road usually not just irving park very few would recognize pacific east river road brandon avenue c or 135th as mile streets few stop to think about the roman orator the dutch town the the english county the pennsylvania and wales town the presidents, mayors, war heroes, and landowners so many of them that they drive over all the time.
so many I had not thought death had undone so many. how green was my valley and the valley of them that have gone.