Chicago’s Boulevard System runs 26 planted miles, and the Logan Square stretch is its cathedral section — double elm rows over a walkable median. Three picks on the green ring.
The Logan Square boulevards are what Chicago’s 1869 plan promised: a continuous planted parkway with a walking median under double rows of elms, greystones facing in from both sides. Palmer Square’s oval and the Illinois Centennial column anchor the two ends; the median path between them is the neighborhood’s shared front yard.
These picks run the median, the square, and the Milwaukee Avenue connector where the awnings pick up the canopy’s slack.
The boulevard median under the double elms — the full cathedral stretch.
The park’s perimeter path under oaks the neighborhood association has minded for a century.
The diagonal’s awning row — record shops and taquerias — to the farm-to-table pioneer.
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