>>Well, Chicago does have the advantage of being flat. It's also laid out a lot different than Atlanta. Basically, it's one big grid. There's very, very few streets that aren't directly North/South or East/West and stay that way. North/South Streets are all named. On the south side, they're pretty much all numbered, with a few exceptions. For example, I grew up just south of Hyde Park Blvd. (AKA 51st Street). However, one block north of Hyde Park Blvd. was 50th Street, and one block south was 52nd. The north side's different. All East/West streets are named.
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>>Amusing side note, is that on the far south side, I think they ran out of names for the North/South streets. Up in the 130s you'll find Avenue L, Avenue M, Avenue N, and Avenue O. It does make it kind of easy since they're in order from East to West.< g >
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>Atl is completely different on this point. Nothing is flat, :-) roads bend, curve, twist and jog. No grid virtually at all. Little rhyme or reason to street names. Plus as roads stretch from city to city or community to community, the same physical road may have two or more names depending on what part of the road you are currently on. You may drive up to an intersection and the cross-street has one name listed going to the left and a completely different one going to the right. Makes it real difficult to find places. :-)

Don't I know it. I'm surprised that every once in awhile you don't hear a news story about some one finally turning up who got lost when they came here for the Olympics.:-)

You know the bit on giving directions in Atlanta, "Go down Peachtree...when you see the Waffle House..."< bg >