Streeterville contains some of Chicago's most valuable properties - Northwestern Hospital, Water Tower and Michigan Avenue's Mag Mile. It was named after Cap Streeter, said to be a Civil War captain. He made a living towing trash out to the lake. Eventually, a man-made "trash bar" was formed and there he built and ran a bar which catered to the lowest of lowlifes. Alas, the city eventually ran him off the "land" and took control of the site - the powers that be had deemed the drunken crowds to be too unruly and brazen.

This filled-in lake became Streeterville.


David Garcia