The North Side is home to many of Chicago's popular tourist attractions, including The Magnificent Mile, as well as many of the city's best hotels and shops. The North Side is also home to the city's ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A battle over how to redraw Chicago's ward maps is turning into a power struggle between two of the city council's most powerful caucuses. The ward boundaries must be redrawn based on ...

The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...

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Dennis McClendon was a self-taught mapmaker whose work can be found in the 2004 “Encyclopedia of Chicago” and in CTA trains and stations across the city. McClendon ran his own mapmaking firm, Chicago ...

Every map of Chicago displaying racial inequity is essentially the same — they show communities of color experiencing the most negative outcomes across a spectrum of quality-of-life indicators. That’s ...