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Roosevelt Road (originally named 12th Street) is a major east-west street in the city of
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, Illinois, and its western suburbs. It is 1200 South in the city's street numbering system, but only south of Madison Street. It runs under this name from Columbus Drive at the southern end of Grant Park to the western city limits,Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Roosevelt Drive/Roosevelt Road", p. 110, Loyola University Press, 1988, then continues through the western suburbs including Lombard, Wheaton and,
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until it reaches
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, where it is known as State Street. 12th Street was renamed to Roosevelt Road on May 25, 1919, in recognition of President
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, who had died the previous January. In 1928 the new U.S. Route 330 (US 330), a different alignment of US 30, went down Roosevelt Road to Geneva, in 1942 it was redesignated as US 30 Alternate. In 1972, after the route had been discontinued, Roosevelt Road outside Chicago became
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Route

In Grant Park (for which it serves as the southern boundary west of
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), it is named Roosevelt Drive. The road begins at Lake Shore Drive and heads west, forming the southern boundary of the
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. The area between Clark Street (100 W) and Jefferson Street (600 W) is a fast-growing commercial district, mostly home to large chain stores, including
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, Staples,
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and
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. This area used to be and remains to a lesser extent, a major fabric retail area. The famous Maxwell Street Market can be found just south of Roosevelt at Canal Street (500 W). Continuing west, it passes the
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between
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and Damen Avenue. It also passes
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at California Avenue. Once past
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it becomes
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Transportation

Among the few Chicago Transit Authority bus routes, Roosevelt Road is primarily served by 12 Roosevelt, which runs from the
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development to a bus terminal at Central Avenue/Harrison Street in Columbus Park. This was an
electric trolley bus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
line from May 1953 until January 1973. Sebree, Mac; and Ward, Paul (1974). ''The Trolley Coach in North America'', pp. 56–58. Los Angeles: Interurbans. LCCN 74-20367. In the suburbs, Roosevelt Road is also served by a few Pace bus routes. 301 Roosevelt Road is a Pace bus route that runs from Wheaton station on
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(from the new DuPage County Courthouse further west under limited service) to
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on the Blue Line. Aside from the bus route's termini, the route deviates from Roosevelt Road to serve
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and the Hillside Park-n-Ride near Darmstadt Road/Wolf Road. 305 East Roosevelt Road is another Pace bus route that runs from Forest Park station to Cicero station, both of which are on the Blue Line; this route parallels the Blue Line. 308 Medical Center runs along Roosevelt Road to connect from Forest Park station to Hines VA Hospital and
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. The
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Roosevelt Roosevelt most often refers to two American presidents: * Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919, president 1901–1909), 26th president of the United States * Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945, president 1933–death), 32nd president of the United State ...
station is a stop and transfer point on the
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and
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lines. The former Roosevelt Road station on the
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has been replaced with the
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Major intersections


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