A suburban extension of Chicago 's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s . In 1889 this road was named '' Sheridan Road '' for Philip Henry Sheridan , a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire . Much of the route had been laid out by 1893 , and in 1894 it was proposed that the new road should be extended to Milwaukee , Wisconsin . Progress on the construction of the road was slowed by local opposition in some of the communities that it was to pass through , and construction was not completed until 1918 . A statue of Sheridan by artist Gutzon Borglum was placed alongside Sheridan Road and Belmont Avenue in Chicago 's Lincoln Park in 1924
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Sheridan Road