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'''North Lawndale''' (also known simply as "'''Lawndale'''") is a community area located on the west side of [[Chicago, Illinois]].
== K-Town ==
'''K-Town''' is a nickname for an area in North Lawndale in which many street names (Keystone Ave., Karlov Ave., Kedvale Ave., Kieler Ave., Killdare Ave., Kostner Ave.) begin with the letter K. The pattern is an historical relic of a 1913 street naming proposal in which streets were to be systematically named according to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana border; K, the eleventh letter, was to be assigned to streets within the eleventh mile, counting west from the state line. K-Town is one of the few places where the plan was actually implemented.
*[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1440.html K-Town], entry in the Chicago Historical Society's ''Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago''▼
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▲*[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1440.html K-Town], entry in the Chicago Historical Society's ''Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago''
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