Foster Avenue (Chicago)

Foster Avenue

Dr. John H. Foster Memorial Avenue 5200 North
Location	Chicago, Harwood Heights, Norridge, Schiller Park, Bensenville, Wood Dale, Roselle, Bartlett
East end	Simonds Drive about 600 West, Chicago
West end	Independence Drive, Bartlett

Foster Avenue (5200 N.) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago as well as the northwestern suburbs. Foster Avenue separates the Chicago lakefront neighborhoods of Edgewater to the north and Uptown to the south.

Foster Avenue runs in Chicago from Lake Michigan on the east to East River Road (8800 W.) to the west and picks up again west of River Road to connect Chicago to O'Hare Airport. It carries U.S. Route 41 from Lake Shore Drive to Lincoln Avenue.

Major neighborhoods

Streets in Chicago

North–south

East of State Street (0 E/W)	Columbus Drive (300 E) Jeffery Boulevard (2000 E) Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue (100 E) Prairie Avenue (300 E) Stony Island Avenue (1600 E) Torrence Avenue (2628 E)

West of State Street	1st Avenue (Cumberland Avenue) (8400 W) Cicero Avenue (Skokie Boulevard) (4800 W) Clark Street (100 W in the loop) Halsted Street (800 W) Harlem Avenue (7200 W) Kedzie Avenue (3200 W) LaSalle Street (140 W) Mannheim Road (La Grange Road) (10400 W) Pulaski Road (4000 W) Sheffield Avenue (1000 W) Wells Street (200 W) Western Avenue (2400 W)

East–west

North of Madison Street (0 N/S)	Addison Street (3600 N) Armitage Avenue (2000 N) Belmont Avenue (3200 N) Chicago Avenue (800 N) Dempster Street (8800 N) Devon Avenue (6400 N) Diversey Parkway (2800 N) Division Street (1200 N) Foster Avenue (5200 N) Fullerton Avenue (2400 N) Howard Street (7600 N) Hubbard Street (430 N) Irving Park Road (4000 N) North Avenue (1600 N) Oak Street (1000 N) Ohio Street (600 N) Randolph Street (150 N) Touhy Avenue (7200 N)

South of Madison Street	95th Street (9500 S) Cermak Road (22nd Street) (2200 S) Congress Parkway (500 S) DeKoven Street (1120 S) Garfield Boulevard (5500 S) Maxwell Street (1330 S) Pershing Road (39th Street) (3900 S) Roosevelt Road (1200 S)

Non-grid

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