Benjamin Aldred, assistant professor and reference librarian at UIC, spent part of the pandemic on his own small project: recreating historic Chicago ward maps as digital shapefiles that can be ...

The facade of Chicago’s Garrick Theater, designed by Adler & Sullivan in 1892 and demolished in 1961. Richard Nickel/Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress ...

If there's one thing Chicago has to offer, it's breathtaking architecture. Just look at the Windy City's one-of-a-kind waterfront road lined with some of the world's best buildings and the Willis ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Choose Chicago is holding a series of free volunteer-led tours of some of the city's most historic neighborhoods. Saturday's tours begin at 10 a.m. from the Chase Promenade in ...

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments; Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments. Each year, the One Book Fellows put together a project that relates the themes of the year's book to the local ...

Chicago’s Folded Map Project and Black Social Culture Map are examples of how Black communities use map-making to affirm the importance of Black life.