What do you consider Downtown?

[MtMtnMan]

The river to the north, just east of Halsted, north of Roosevelt. This is a good link to use for city neighborhood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comm...eas_in_Chicago

If you see 18 district squad cars you're out of the Loop.

[SkylarkPhotoBooth]

[quote=MtMtnMan]The river to the north/QUOTE]

So Marina City, Trump Tower, Merchandise Mart, Wrigley Building, Hancock, Navy Pier, and Mag Mile aren't "Downtown"? Interesting.

[Codederick]

Originally Posted by SkylarkPhotoBooth

The southern part of Gold Coast, yes, but remember Gold Coast extends way up north to the southern border of Lincoln Park. I wouldn't include that part. If you're going to include that part you just about have to include Noble Square (uh, sorry, "East Village") and Chinatown, too, in terms of distance from The Loop.

Very good point, SkySky.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by ChicagoMeO

That's funny! No one in Chicago calls North Michigan Ave the Miracle Mile. I never in my life heard of that.. so it must be tourists or something.

About as bad as calling that one place Soldiers Field (plural). no one should call it that. It's Soldier Field

Sure we call Michigan Avenue the Miracle Mile here in Chicago. When we go south of it we're downtown. We go north to get to Beverley Hills, Westwood and Santa Monica.

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Sure we call Michigan Avenue the Miracle Mile here in Chicago. When we go south of it we're downtown. We go north to get to Beverley Hills, Westwood and Santa Monica.

That's funny, I go west to get to those cities from the Miracle Mile.

The Magnificent Mile, so christened by Arthur Rubloff in the 1950s, is well to the east of any of them - as you, but apparently not too many other people, know.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by Larry Siegel

That's funny, I go west to get to those cities from the Miracle Mile.

The Magnificent Mile, so christened by Arthur Rubloff in the 1950s, is well to the east of any of them - as you, but apparently not too many other people, know.

Larry, no disrespect to LA (which for the record, I like); but I do mind it being foisted on Chicago.

But turnabout is far play, so did you hear that Rich Melman just announced he is opening a branch of his stellar LEYE restaurant, Lawry's Steak (his mother's maiden name was Lawrystein), in Los Angeles, a smaller, simpler version of the famed Michigan Avenue flagsh........on second thought: never mind.

First it started with Arthur Rubloff and the tag of "Mag Mile", just about when State Street was going down the tubes. Then everything started to explode when Phil Klutznik developed WTP. And since my background is similar to Rubloff's and Klutznik (and actually to a lot of people named Siegel), for unknown reasons, I take some sort of perverse pride in this.

with kudos to Kup, the aforementioned Melman, Turkel, Rahm, JB, Crown, Rosenwald. And, of course, Leopold and Lo......on second thought: never mind.