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Unlike many Midwestern and East Coast cities, Chicago tends to have wider streets.

A positive effect of this is that it alleviates the feeling of being engulfed by the city's large skyscrapers.

Most of the city's residential streets also tend to have a wide patch of grass and / or trees between the street and the sidewalk itself.

This has the effect of keeping pedestrians walking on the sidewalk further away from the street traffic.

Chicago's Western Avenue is the longest continuous urban street in the world.

Other famous streets include North Michigan Avenue, North State Street, Clark, and Belmont Avenue.

The City Beautiful movement inspired Chicago's boulevards and parkways.