Streeterville green the Blackstone Library

the Blackstone Library

and medians in color

Uptown was once known as “the Loop’s little brother

The neighborhood is currently populated by students

Streeterville green the Blackstone LibraryInspired by the morning mist rolling over the pier, with notes of sea salt, petitgrain, and musk. When George Streeter, a former river boat captain and traveling circus owner, grounded his steamboat on the Sands at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1886, he claimed the whole area as his own. While Streeters claim was struck down after a decades long legal battle, the name Streeterville stuck. Now home to iconic Chicago landmarks like the John Hancock