Often they are misdirected. Plenty! The naming of Carroll st. has not been satisfactorily explained. Everybody in the city who wants to go from one place to another or send something somewhere in the city would benefit—and straightening out these names will, not cost a cent!The time to straighten out the names is before new street signs are bought—not after. Every city has its iconic boulevards, the streets that are home to history or feature in the addresses of soaring skyscrapers. Chicago is name that's been used by parents who are considering unisex or non-gendered baby names--baby names that can be used for any gender. We continue to mobilize every resource at our disposal and collaborate with national, state and local partners to develop a comprehensive and coordinated response to the virus. Fort Dearborn was already there; it was natural to call the street nearest it Dearborn. Westward the streets were increased by Desplaines—the road to the town of that name, and by Union, which then terminated at Kinzie in the south. Since he named his fourth east-west street south of the river Washington and the one after it Madison (although this name does not appear on the copy of the Thompson plat in the Chicago Historical society), it was assumed that he intended to have one series of Chicago streets named after the Presidents.No one seems to have asked why, in that case, the street after Washington was not named Adams, nor why Thompson should have put his Jefferson st. far away and at right angles to the others. From this arrangement (which disarranged the Presidential succession), the presumption is reasonable that the Chicagoans named the boundary streets after the three most prominent men, according to their ideas, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Kinzie. The Scotch traction expert liked occasionally to slip away from his hotel and go about the city alone, and his criticism doubtless was prompted by the he experienced in getting around. This attribution has been questioned and the name is also supposed to have been taken from a Clark, or Clarke, whom Thompson found in 1830.La Salle st. was named for the French explorer who visited the site of Chicago in 1682. The omission of Adams from the roll of Presidents in naming Chicago streets, and the expurgation of Tyler street. Adams street was named after John Adams, while John Quincy Adams, according to A. T. Andreas, was at first objectionable because of his election by the House of Representatives, but later on the little street abutting upon the government building was named after him.Names of other “Presidential” streets are self-explanatory, but it should be mentioned that Cleveland avenue, on the North Side, was originally named after Horatio N. Huribut, and only changed after Cleveland’s second election.