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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
it's intersting how these things can sometimes get sorta "baked-in" from the beginning.
chicago stuck with its ~25' wide lots all the way up until about 1920, when the mass brick bungalow belt process started in earnest (we had bungalows before then, of course, but the 20's is when SFH-itis really took hold of the city's populace and literally hundreds of thousands of them were seemingly all built at once). as you move into inner bungalow belt areas, lot sizes tend to increase to around 30' wide, and then in the outter bungalow belt, 35' wide starts to become more common.
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Not sure about the outter bungalow belt, but in typical northside neighborhoods, the standard is 25 x 125 as you stated, then 30 x 125 would be next standard, then 37.5 x 125 which makes sense, as that is 1.5 lots wide. Lot sizes then get messed up when they are near diagonal streets such as Clark or Lincoln, those streets will create lots that are as short as 85ft and as long as 150 ft depending on the block and how far from a major cross street. Intersections with a "T" often have longer lots as well as the width of the street has been added to the lots. It's pretty interesting once you get an idea of the street layout of a neighborhood, you can typically guess the lot sizes and where the larger/smaller lots will be located.