We want to find maps that show what the coastline looked like when Chicago was first incorporated as a city, when the Great Chicago fire remapped the downtown, when they first built Navy Pier or ...

Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...

Last winter, researchers at the University of Chicago distributed a survey that asked residents to define their neighborhood ...

Chicago is about to suffer one of the world's worst urban disasters. Track the path of the fire and read accounts of people who lived through it, in this interactive timeline and map. 1.