In 2019 a collaboration between two non-profits occured between Sheridan Triangle Garden located near 3800 N Lake Shore Drive (inner drive) and Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association that meets at Sulzer Regional Public Library and the alderman at the time, James Cappleman. Their successful goal was to create a gathering space by the garden to commemorate with a plaque donated by the historial association of a former residence that would be called after 1854 the Lake View House.
Three years later some influencial pioneers of the area met in a school house in Andersonville to petition the State of Illinois for a new township. Due to the popularity of the Lake View House, now referred to as a hotel, Lake View Township was established.
The town[ship] stretched from Devon Avenue to the north to Fullerton Avenue to the south, the existing lakefront to the east to Western Avenue to the west. The City of Chicago's northern border would later be Fullerton Avenue. The only roads northboand from the city at that time was Green Bay Road (Clark Street) and Little Fort Road (Lincoln Avenue). Soon after the establishment of the hotel a plank road was constructed called Lake Shore Plank Road, modern day Broadway that would make it easier for patrons to visit during the warmer months.
Traveling to this new hotel in the middle of no-where was not easy task according to a Chicago Daily article pubished in 1854 but apparently worth the adventure.
