Halsted Street (800 W) also runs north-south passing each park within a distance of no more than two blocks.
The road continues intermittently and ends, marked as Halstead Street, at 287th street north of Beecher, Illinois.
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Professional wrestlers One Man Gang and Colt Cabana have been billed from Halsted Street, as well as Ace Steel and CM Punk.
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The street derives its name from William H. and Caleb O. Halsted, Philadelphia bankers who made large investments in Chicago real estate through William B. Ogden, Chicago's first Mayor.
Running parallel to the Indiana border, it is also the longest state road, starting on the south side of Chicago as Halsted Street at an interchange with Interstate 57 (I–57), south to a free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River.
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Authors Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett proposed a broad new boulevard on the line of Congress Street that would cut through the long blocks between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, connecting a cultural center of new buildings in Grant Park to a new civic center centered on Congress and Halsted Street, then extending westward to parks and suburban areas beyond the city limits.