Talk:William Wallace Kimball

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According to one of the Geoffrey Baer history programs on WTTW (Chicago by 'L', if I recall correctly), Kimball Avenue was originally named Kimbell and was named for an early settler. This site states that person was Martin Nelson Kimbell, who arrived from New York in 1836, long before William Wallace Kimball came to Chicago to make his fortune. The name was changed during a city-wide street name unification project (some time after several major annexations led to a patchwork of different names within city limits), but whether the change to Kimball was in honor of W.W. or merely a typo deserves a reliable source. Kevin Forsyth (talk) 22:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]