Chicago entertainment district

Usage examples of uptown.

She had made her way uptown, into the Bronx, mixing long walks down hot steamy streets with quick rides on air-conditioned buses, always shadowed by the two tiring Camorristas stepping on her trail.

The taxi sped uptown, taking Anita and Michael to the King Croesus on Park Avenue.

I got a couple cute little Singhalese tourists lined up, and four freebees to a new private tridi way uptown.

CHAPTER VII THE SHADOW PONDERS AT the very moment when Ferret, in Middletown, was fancying that the affairs of Joel Hawkins were of little interest elsewhere, a brain in uptown New York was thinking of Ferret.

Now dubbed Uptown on the Hill, the compact urban neighborhood just northeast of downtown was an interesting multiethnic place with a range of residents who varied widely in financial wherewithal.

Weigand walked along and in a moment the Norths passed him in a taxicab, going uptown.

He watched shadows of the revelers dancing on the curtains like a Balinese puppet show and he wanted to be content where he was, alone at this table, though he was beginning to think Aspen would be a better place, with most of the other uptown New Orleanians who opted out of the krewes and the balls.

Rasche and Schaefer, taken on the occasion of nailing a particularly vicious drug kingpin from uptown, a punk called Errol G.

We rose late and grabbed a beansprout in some high-priced rabbit farm and took a cab uptown.

She craned her head to look at Baltimore’s newest tower condo development, Uptown Helix, thirty floors poised on two broad quadrangles of shops and theaters, all in the shadow of the Bromo-Seltzer Tower.

Now it stood alone, blackened and charred but whole, while all around it skeletal remains of burned-out homes teetered for blocks, frameworks leaning on lumps of fused brick, so that occasionally a charcoaled timber snapped of its own weight and came crashing down to break an eerie silence that spread from here to the uptown house where the pillar of fire had once raged, and beyond.

I don't know how Sam will come back, unless the Chevvy is uptown somewhere.

I got myself hooked up with this claimer hangs out Uptown and he checked out the schools yesterday.

He traveled crosstown until he got across Broadway, connected with the West Side Highway and rolled uptown.

Personnel from other groups, either with a night off or taking a long break from somewhere crosstown or uptown, listened hard, trying to dig.