Sign Honoring City’s Geographic Center A Point Of Pride In McKinley Park — Even If It’s Not Accurate – Block Club Chicago

Since 1979, signs have honored West 37th and South Honore as Chicago’s geographic center. But the city's real midpoint shifted in the '50s when the city annexed land for O'Hare. Now, the actual center is between Pilsen and McKinley Park: south of 31st and Western and in the water of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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