Chicago’s annual Pride Parade for 2026 steps off on the city’s North Side this weekend, with huge crowds and hundreds of ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

When I saw this map posted on WBEZ’s Tumblr, I thought, “damn, girl, what’s that smell? Could it be the can of worms the radio station is opening up by drawing attention to some crackpot’s New ...

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 ...

NOTE: A live stream of the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon will appear in the player above beginning at 7 a.m. Tune in live for complete race coverage and a finish line camera showing runners as ...

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 ...