The Chicago Urban Heritage Project aims to digitize historic fire insurance maps from Chicago to create an historically accurate and downloadable building footprint data layers. And it’s all led by ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier is joined by Ward Miller, Executive Director of Preservation Chicago, to discuss the group’s annual list of Chicago’s most endangered historic structures. Among the ...

A long with Chicago’s many beaches and tons of interesting things to do—plus the fact it’s relatively cheap to live here and generally fairly easy to get around without a car—our city’s diverse, ...

Travelers at Chicago airports may notice a new symbol on airport maps and it signals something particularly important. The icons indicate special areas at both airports designated as resources for ...

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 ...

As Chicago welcomes meteorological spring with a “weather whiplash” of 60-degree temperatures and rounds of snow, the latest Climate Prediction Center’s seasonal temperature outlook maps show things ...