| Harvey is a Chicago
area city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The
population was 30,000, at the 2000 census, but a 2003
Census estimate showed the population dipped to 29,367.
Harvey is bordered by Dixmoor, Riverdale and Blue Island
to the north, Posen and Markham to the west, South Holland,
Phoenix, and Dolton to the east, and East Hazel Crest
to the south.
Three major north-south streets
in Chicago venture as far south as Harvey in some capacity.
Halsted Street (Illinois Route 1) runs through the east
side of town. Dixie Highway, as it is known in Harvey,
is Western Avenue in Chicago. Finally, Chicago's Ashland
Avenue becomes Wood Street in Harvey. The reason for
this is a surveyor's error along the line where Interstate
57 is now located; Harvey's street names and numbers
conform to the section lines rather than actual distance
from Chicago's base lines (as indicated by the jogs
in Halsted Street near 150th Street and 159th Street
between Harvey and Markham, as examples). Harvey's own
Ashland Avenue serves as the east-west dividing line
for house numbering.
Harvey was founded in 1891 by
Christian leader Turlington W. Harvey, a close associate
of Dwight Moody (founder of the Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago). |
