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…traffic and warehouses, not beaches and resorts
 
Put an island in the heart of the Midwest, and residents will scratch their heads in ignorance of what to do with it. Do we build a spa? they may ask. Stick some umbrellas in the ground and call it a beach?

Fortunately, resourceful Chicagoans found plenty of uses for the small, barely discernable strip of land floating in the north part of the Chicago River. Let’s start a brewery! they said, and the masses cheered, and the now nationally known Goose Island beer was born.

But, being “The City That Works,” residents also needed something a little Puritanical to balance their bacchanalia, and so in 1990, the area was designated a Planned Warehouse District, designed to expand industry and retain jobs.

Anyway, no one really wanted the 200,000-sq.-ft. Wrigley Global Innovation Center in his or her backyard. Most of the housing here is for pallets and forklifts.

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Division Street

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