Charting the District by Wendy Plotkin

INTRODUCTION TO MAP TOUR

MAP TOUR

• Entire Document
• Pages 1-2
• Pages 3-4
• Pages 5-6
• Pages 7-8
• Pages 9-10
• Pages 11-12
• Pages 13-14
• Footnotes

Putting Mapmaking in 19th-Century Chicago on the Map

The Canal Land Grants

Chicago in 1830

Map of Chicago 1830

The World: Geographical Historical and Statistical

Sketch Map Number Two

Extensions of the City Limits

Burnt District in the Great Fire

AREA OF BURNT DISTRICT

• The Population of Wards
• Total Wealth of Wards
• Chicago Relief and Aid Society

City of Chicago

Chicago’s Park and Boulevard System

CENTRAL BUSINESS PROPERTY VOLUME

• Outline and Index
• Plate 6 (Left half)
• Plate 6 (Right half)
• Plate 8 (Left half)
• Plate 8 (Right half)

Traveling from Hull-House

HULL-HOUSE MAPS AND PAPERS

• Nationalities Map 1 and 2
• Nationalities Map 3 and 4
• Wage Map 1 and 2
• Wage Map 3 and 4

Municipal Playgrounds in Chicago

Baedeker Maps of Chicago

DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS

•  Map 1: Proposed Metropolitan Park System for Chicago
•  Map 3: Relative Density of Population
•  Map 4: Relative Mortality, Infant Mortality, Diptheria & Typhoid Cases, & Juvenile  Crime
•  Map 5: Parks, Small Parks, and Playgrounds in Chicago

Tuberculosis in Jewish District

Chicago’s West Side

“Housekeeping” and Red-Light districts in Chicago

New House Number and System for Chicago

Street Names and Numbers

Mass Transit on Chicago’s West Side

Chicago Street Number Guide and City Railway Directory

Tillotson’s Pocket Map and Street Guide of Chicago

Chicago Housing Conditions

Map of Parishes

Chicago Commission on Race Relations

CENSUS DATA OF CHICAGO

•  1920 Census Population
•  1930 Local Conmmunities
•  1930 Increase – Decrease Population Areas
•  1920 Households Owning Homes
•  1920 Percent Population Born in Italy
•  1920 Distribution 25,684 Negro Families
•  1920 Percent Population Born in Russia

People’s of Europe

Chicago in Seven Days

Mexican Labor in the United States