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A
Advertisement for D. S. Taylor Property, South Chicago, c. 1873
Ancient Indian Earthworks in the Chicago Region
Annexations and Additions to the City of Chicago
Areas with Increased Poverty Rate, 1970-1980
Arend Van Vlissingen Plan for Lake Calumet Harbor, 1920
Armour and Morris Foreign Houses and Agencies, 1924
B
Bird’s-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks, and Boulevards, 1910
Blanchard’s Guide Map of Chicago, 1862
Blanchard’s Guide Map of Chicago, 1871
Blanchard’s Map of Chicago and Environs, 1888
Blanchard’s Map of Chicago and Suburbs, 1921
Blues Clubs in Chicago, 1945-2001
C
Calumet Region
Cartogram of “Chicago’s Place in Industrial America,” 1952
Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago’s Foreign-Born Population
Chicago Area Before Human Transformation
Chicago-Area Expressways in 2001
Chicago Area’s Iron and Steel Industry
Chicago Housing Authority Family Projects
Chicago in 1812
Chicago in 1835
Chicago Tribune Map of Chicagoland and Century of Progress Exposition, 1934
Chicago with Additions, 1836
Chicago with the School Section and Wabansia and Kinzie’s Addition, 1834
Chicago’s Central Business District, 1862
Chicago’s Central Business District and Principal Transportation Lines, 1904
Chicago’s Community Areas
Chicago’s Deep Tunnel System in 2003
Chicago’s Ethnic Mosaic in 1980
Chicago’s Ethnic Mosaic in 2000
Chicago’s Evolving Economic Geography
Chicago’s Freight Tunnels, c. 1930
Chicago’s Lakefront Landfill
Chicago’s Place in the Water Routes of the Great Lakes Indian World, 1600-1830
Chicago’s Railroad Pattern in 1950
Chicago’s Rapid Transit Lines
Chicago’s Residential Patterns According to Census Racial Categories in 2000
Chicago’s Retail Centers in 1948
Chicago’s Retail Centers in 2000
Chicago’s Street Railways in 1890
Chicago’s World—Within a Day’s Travel
Commuting in Metropolitan Chicago in 1970
Commuting in the Walking City in 1854
Commuting: The Journey to Work in Chicago in 1980
Commuting: Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934
Cook and DuPage, and Parts of Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, 1851
County Boundaries in the Chicago Area
D
Deep Draft Harbors in the Chicago District, 1947
Detail from Map of Chicago Showing Location of All Catholic Churches, 1926
Detail from Watson’s New Township and Sectional Map of Illinois, 1871
Diagram of Proposed Subdivision in Ashburn Community Area, 1943
E
Economic Origins of Metropolitan Chicago Communities
Existing and Proposed Channels and Bridges, Calumet-Sag Project, 1953
Existing and Proposed Highways in the Metropolitan Region, c.1926
F
Fire Limits in Chicago in the 1870s
Fire of 1871 (Progress of the Chicago Fire of 1871)
Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago, 1839
G
General Map of Chicago, Showing the Park System, Principal Transportation Lines, and Points of Mechanical Interest, 1904
Graceland Cemetery, 1890
The Great Lakes
Growth of the Chicago Metropolitan Area
H
H. R. Page & Co. Guide Map of Chicago, 1879
“Hibbardville” in A Great-Grandmother Remembers (1940) by Addie Hibbard Gregory
Highway Map of Cook County, 1970
The Historic Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor in 1851
Hull House Map (Nationalities), 1895
Hull House Map (Wages), 1895
I
Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad Slip on the Chicago River, 1895
Illinois-Wisconsin Boundary Line, 1846
Indian Settlement Pattern in the Chicago Region, c. 1830
Initial Land Sales in Northeastern Illinois
Intercommunity Councils, 1963
Interurbans in the Chicago Region
L
Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886
Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886 (Rich Map)
Lake County Fire Protection Districts, 2003
Lake County Municipalities and High School Districts, 2003
Lake Forest, 1873
Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago’s Northwest Side
Layout of Fort Dearborn and Environs, 1808
M
Manufacturing Employment in Chicago, 1951
Map of Chicago’s Gangland, 1931
Marquette’s Map, 1673
Metropolitan Chicago Reference Map
Movie Theaters in Chicago, 1926, 1937 and 2002
N
Northwest Territory, 1795
O
Openlands Project Map of Regional Waterways, 2004
Organized Crime in 1920s Chicago
P
Park Districts and Parks in Chicago, 1913
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Ashland Avenue), 1916
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Diagram of Proposed Superhighway System), 1927
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Diversion of Freight Traffic), 1914
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Downtown Projects), c.1920
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Industry and Population Density Estimates in the Chicago Region), 1919
Plat Map of Cook County, 1861
Population Density by Wards, 1904
Portion of the South Side Levee District, 1910
Prairie Avenue: Chicago’s Prairie Avenue Elite in 1886
Prairie Avenue: Neighborhood Change, 1853-2003
Prairie Avenue: Worlds of Prairie Avenue (Rich Map)
Proposed Comprehensive Terminal at the South End of Lake Calumet, 1953
Proposed Improvements in Calumet River, 1953
Proposed Plan for Improving the Mouth of the Chicago River, 1830
Proposed Chicago River Straightening Project, 1921
Pullman Company Rail Network, 1885
R
Racial Restrictive Covenants on Chicago’s South Side in 1947
Railroads and Chicago’s Loop, c. 1930
Railway Map of Chicago and Environs, 1879
Rand McNally & Co. Map of Chicago, 1886
Rand McNally & Co.’s Map of the Central Portion of Chicago, 1895
Rand McNally & Co.’s New Street Number Guide Map of Chicago, 1910
Recreational Facilities in Chicago’s Loop
Rees & Rucker Map of Chicago and Vicinity, 1849
Religious Geography: Chicago’s Non-Judeo-Christian Congregations in 2002
Religious Geography: Churches of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the Chicago Area
Religious Geography: Jewish Congregations on the Move in Chicago, 1849-2002
Religious Geography: Locational Stability: Saint Aloysius Parish, Chicago in 1951
Religious Geography: Religious Diversity on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 2002
Revised Preliminary Plan of Grant Park, 1903
Robinson’s Atlas of the City of Chicago, 1886
Robinson’s Map of Chicago (entire), 1886
Ross & Browne Real Estate Map of Central Chicago
S
Sewers and Sewerage District, 1857
Southern Distribution of the Chicago Defender, 1919
Souvenir Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
Stead’s Map of Nineteenth Precinct in Chicago’s First Ward, 1894
Studebaker Map of Chicago and World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
T
Thompson’s Plat of 1830
U
Union Stock Yard, 1891
W
Water System and Pollution Drainage Maps, Chicago Medical Record (December 1893)
Water System and Sanitary Health Maps, Chicago Medical Record (December 1893)
Women’s Garment Factories in Chicago in 1925
Wright’s Survey Map of Chicago, 1834