Hubbard Street

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Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard.

Contents 1 History 2 Streetscape 3 Transit 4 In popular culture 5 Sources

[edit] History

[edit] Streetscape

[edit] Transit

[edit] In popular culture

• Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway starts enters a tunnel known as "Hubbard's Cave."
• The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago company is named for this street.
• The Billy Goat Tavern, made famous in a Saturday Night Live skit, is located on Hubbard Street at the intersection with lower Michigan Avenue.

[edit] Sources

• Streetwise Chicago by Don Hayner & Tom McNamee ISBN 0-8294-0596-8

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