1908: Street naming

1908 Street Numbering ordinance ...

The system established two base lines where all numbering began:
State Street running north and south and
Madison Street running east and west.

800 numbers were assigned to each mile ...
or 100 numbers to each one-eighth of a mile,
and such numbers changed to the next succeeding one hundred at the intersecting street nearest the one-eighth of a mile line.

Even numbers indicated a building on the north or west side of a street,
while odd numbers meant a location on the south or the east side of a street. This numbering scheme is still in use.