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The Big Ditch is the predecessor, dug by Evanston for drainage into Lake Michigan, for the North Shore Channel we all know and love, except if you live east of Howard and McCormick when there's a westerly wind[xx(]. Today's canal follows much of the original right-of-way of the old Big Ditch. <br />The other street references are streets that were in existence in the late 1890s as they were specifically mentioned in the various issues of the Evanston Index, a local Evanston-based, weekly newspaper. It came out on Saturdays. In my research, I've gone over 1400 separate issues for info and have more than that many more to read through. It's hard to get maps of Early Evanston, so I can't verify what names any of these streets may now go under. The Evanston Library doesn't have any and the Evanston Hisorical Society has highly curtailed hours, making research there tennuous, at best.[:(!]
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