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You'll also find several notable hotels – including the Park Hyatt Chicago and The Drake, a Hilton Hotel – along this bustling street. Near North Side: The Magnificent Mile and StreetervilleĪccessible via the Red Line's Grand, Chicago, Clark/Division and North/Clybourn L stops and the Brown and Purple lines' Merchandise Mart, Chicago and Sedgwick subway stations.Įxtending north from the Loop is the Streeterville area of the Near North Side and The Magnificent Mile, a stretch of Michigan Avenue (the main downtown thoroughfare) lined with large department stores and luxury retailers. The North Side is also home to the city's most popular touristy and residential neighborhoods. The coordinates of a location within each zone are defined as a planar coordinate pair related to the intersection of the equator and the zone’s central meridian, and measured in meters.Įlevation above sea level is a measure of a geographic location’s height.The North Side is home to many of Chicago's popular tourist attractions, including The Magnificent Mile, as well as many of the city's best hotels and shops. UTM or Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system divides the Earth’s surface into 60 longitudinal zones. Negative longitude values correspond to the geographic locations west of the prime meridian (abbrev. Positive longitude values correspond to the geographic locations east Longitude is counted from the prime meridian ( IERS Reference Meridian for WGS 84) and varies from −180° to 180°. Negative latitude values correspond to the geographic locations south of the Equator (abbrev. Positive latitude values correspond to the geographic locations north of the Equator (abbrev. The latitude of the Equator is 0° the latitude of the South Pole is −90°

GPS systems widely use coordinates in degrees and decimal minutes, or in decimal degrees. The canonical form of latitude and longitude representation uses degrees (°), minutes (′), and seconds (″). Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) define a position on the Earth’s surface. Satellite navigation system (the Global Positioning System). WGS 84 coordinate reference system is the latest revision of the World Geodetic System, which is used in mapping and navigation, including GPS