Hubbard Street

Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave."

Streetscape

The Merchandise Mart stands on the south side of the street between Franklin Street and Orleans Street, and several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places stand on the street including Courthouse Place.

In popular culture

• The Hubbard Street Dance Chicago company is named for this street.
• The Billy Goat Tavern, made famous in a Saturday Night Live skit, is located on Hubbard Street at the intersection with lower Michigan Avenue.

Sources

• Streetwise Chicago by Don Hayner & Tom McNamee ISBN 0-8294-0596-8