Wrigleyville & Lakeview

Lakeview was a separate town of celery farms and lake breezes until Chicago swallowed it in 1889. In 1914 a ballpark went up at Clark and Addison, and the neighborhood around it became Wrigleyville, where the bars open early on game days and the rooftops have bleachers. A few blocks east, Halsted Street became the heart of gay Chicago. This walk starts among the famous dead, in the cemetery where Chicago buried the men who built it, and takes you past a London street that wandered into Chicago, a movie palace with stars on its ceiling, the rock club where the Smashing Pumpkins began and the ivy of Wrigley Field to the Legacy Walk on Halsted Street. Graceland closes at 4 in winter.