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View Poll Results: What neighbirhoods comprise downtown Chicago
Loop alone 18 22.22%
Loop and Mag Mile 10 12.35%
Loop, Mag Mile, River North 5 6.17%
Loop, Mag Mile, River North and Streeterville 14 17.28%
Loop, Mag Mile, River North, Streeterville and Gold Coast 22 27.16%
Every neighborhood with Loop in the name 3 3.70%
Some other configuration 9 11.11%
Voters: 81. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-24-2017, 08:26 AM
 
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Hmmm I feel that bar strip on division and state is still downtownish.
South to like 14th street now that the south loop is developed.
That's a pretty far-out Northern boundary and a pretty close-in Southern one. If you're going to go north to State, I would go south to 18th or even Cermak. By your definition Soldier Field isn't even downtown.
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Old 10-24-2017, 11:49 AM
 
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Quite a few people from overseas, primarily from visitors from the UK and a few other European countries refer to Michigan Ave as the Miracle Mile. I suspect a travel article was written incorrectly or they were just repeating what some one told them and was lost in translation.
IIRC, I have seen the name "Miracle Mile" to refer to Michigan Avenue in a Chicago guidebook or two. However, that doesn't change the fact that this is an error. Someone dropped the ball on fact checking there. Besides which, the name "Miracle Mile" is already taken. It refers to a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles that contains the art museum, natural history museum, La Brea tar pits, etc.
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Old 10-25-2017, 07:23 AM
 
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IIRC, I have seen the name "Miracle Mile" to refer to Michigan Avenue in a Chicago guidebook or two. However, that doesn't change the fact that this is an error. Someone dropped the ball on fact checking there. Besides which, the name "Miracle Mile" is already taken. It refers to a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles that contains the art museum, natural history museum, La Brea tar pits, etc.
Wow, a tour book used the term Miracle Mile for Chicago? That's pretty bad.
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Old 10-25-2017, 07:50 AM
 
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Wow, a tour book used the term Miracle Mile for Chicago? That's pretty bad.
Why is that bad? So all these books and tour people are all wrong?
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Old 10-25-2017, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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That's a pretty far-out Northern boundary and a pretty close-in Southern one. If you're going to go north to State, I would go south to 18th or even Cermak. By your definition Soldier Field isn't even downtown.
It tapers around. Not a perfect square
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Old 10-25-2017, 09:10 AM
 
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IIRC, I have seen the name "Miracle Mile" to refer to Michigan Avenue in a Chicago guidebook or two. However, that doesn't change the fact that this is an error.
Exactly. Unfortunately we live in a post-factual age where anything that is stated as fact is considered by some to be so, regardless of whether it actually is or not.
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Old 10-25-2017, 09:12 AM
 
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Why is that bad? So all these books and tour people are all wrong?
I have never seen "all these tour books and tour people" to which you refer, but if they incorrectly refer to the Magnificent Mile as the "Miracle Mile" then yes, they are wrong. This ain't rocket science.
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Old 10-25-2017, 09:16 AM
 
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Default Yes! The cheap "tour guides" are often NOT written by anybody with actual knowledge of Chicago!

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Why is that bad? So all these books and tour people are all wrong?

The same idiotic firms that hand out these tasks to dolts and then hire equally incompetent "editors" end up COMPOUNDING errors.

The correct location for the "Miracle Mile" neighborhood is LOS ANGLES -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mile,_Los_Angeles

The proper term for North Michigan Ave is The Magnificent Mile - North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
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Old 10-25-2017, 09:42 AM
 
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Considering the Magnificent Mile isn't even a mile, it's not like the term is correct in the first place. And I've heard it referred to as the Miracle Mile numerous times, perhaps as often as it's called Magnificent Mile. Even Michigan Mile sometimes; phonetically, they all practically have the same sounds and inflections.


I also like the term "Millennium Mile" from last year. The city was trying to rebrand Michigan adjacent to Grant Park as such. Nobody calls it the Millennium Mile, but with additional projects like Essex and 1 Grant Park, who knows, maybe it'll stick.
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Old 10-25-2017, 10:11 AM
 
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Considering the Magnificent Mile isn't even a mile, it's not like the term is correct in the first place. And I've heard it referred to as the Miracle Mile numerous times, perhaps as often as it's called Magnificent Mile. Even Michigan Mile sometimes; phonetically, they all practically have the same sounds and inflections.


I also like the term "Millennium Mile" from last year. The city was trying to rebrand Michigan adjacent to Grant Park as such. Nobody calls it the Millennium Mile, but with additional projects like Essex and 1 Grant Park, who knows, maybe it'll stick.
Yep names change all the time.
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