Roosevelt Road (originally named 12th Street) is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs. It is 1200 South in the city's street numbering system, but only one mile south of Madison Street. It runs under this name from Columbus Drive to the western city limits Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, Streetwise Chicago, "Roosevelt Drive/Roosevelt Road", p. 110, Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6 , and then on through the western suburbs until it reaches Geneva, where it is known as State Street. It is named after President Theodore Roosevelt.