Last Tuesday I wrote about visual artist Tim Anderson rediscovering a painting he had made 15 years ago of the city of Chicago containing, to his calculations and research, some 198 different neigh… ...

A hand-drawn 1850s copy of an 1835 map is the showpiece in a portfolio of 39 antique maps of Chicago that Berk calls the Ogden Archive. "Basically, these maps show Chicago being born," Berk said.

A reader wondered how Chicago’s coastline has changed over the decades. We look at the earliest maps of Chicago to get us closer to an answer.

The fifth-generation owners of a company founded by Samuel Greeley, a prominent surveyor from Chicago’s early days, are seeking a home for a massive archive of maps and other documents compiled ...

But maps can turn personal experiences into powerful evidence. ... Chicago homicides, left, and city sticker ticketing rates from 2011-2015.

A Chicago-area mapmaker says he's preparing to sue Mayor Rahm Emanuel's government after the city allegedly "stole" his maps nearly a decade ago and has refused to pay him royalties.

Coverage of Chicago's lethal crime tends to downplay, or leave out entirely, the fact that the number of homicides here has plummeted since the early 1990s, from a rate of over 30 per 100,000 ...

Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s ...