These sections surround the city's compact downtown area – the Loop. For help navigating the city's various neighborhoods, ...

The Chicago City Council adopted a new map of the city’s 50 wards Monday — three days before a deadline to avoid having the referendum go to voters on the June primary election ballot. The map passed ...

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 ...

A new Chicago ward map was presented at Wednesday's City Council meeting but no vote will be taken, aldermen say. CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new Chicago ward map was introduced to City Council Wednesday, but ...

After months of negotiations and fierce fighting, a super-majority of aldermen have agreed to a compromise ward map that will set Chicago’s political boundaries for the next decade. The agreement also ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) --After months of acrimonious fighting over the future boundaries of the city's 50 wards, the City Council on Monday approved a new ward map that will avoid having voters choose between ...

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 ...