Gold Coast Aerial View, 1929

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By this time Lake Shore Drive was unquestionably a major boulevard, but not yet the highway familiar to drivers today. The construction of the Outer Drive on the filled lakefront was completed up to North Avenue by 1939, to Belmont Avenue (and south to 47th Street) by 1942.

Photographer: Underwood & Underwood
Source: Newberry Library (Barrett-Sandburg b.3, f.38)

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