Nearby East-west streets slope downward from Second Avenue to First Avenue.

East-west streets were on interleaving sections with north and south so that only the ground level had to stop at intersections.

East-west streets were 60 feet wide, building-to-building, and the north-south avenues a little wider.

East-west streets were renamed to conform with the numerical grid of Union City; John Street became 11th Street.

East-west running streets in the former community are all named after trees, and are in alphabetical order starting with Alder and ending with Fir.

East-west streets take residents 20 minutes east to Lake Michigan and other North Shore suburbs such as Lake Forest, Highland Park, and Glencoe.

East-west streets:

East-west streets are named and north-south streets are numbered.

East-west streets are designated by an ordinal number followed by a north or south designation.

East-west streets on the central and east Mountain are pretty regular, while those in the lower city (especially major ones) and west Mountain are very irregular.