Genealogy

The Roscoe Village neighborhood is in the North Center community area.

Reformer and social activist Jane Addams opened Hull House in 1889 to serve the immigrant population of the surrounding community.

The McKinley Park community area has been known as a working-class community throughout its history.

Pedestrians make their way through the Loop at State and Randolph streets during rush hour.

The Logan Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue has been showing movies in the community since 1915.

Officially part of the South Lawndale community area, the Little Village neighborhood is brimming with Mexican-American culture. Before it was known as La Villita, Little Village saw an influx of German, Czech, and Polish immigrants following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Giddings Plaza is just off a quaint stretch of shops and restaurants in Lincoln Square.

Just outside Lincoln Park Zoo, the Nature Boardwalk in Lincoln Park overlooks Chicago’s iconic skyline.

Located at the corner of Clark and Addison streets, Wrigley Field is an iconic ball park that has undergone a lot of change in recent years.

Several bus routes and the Blue Line all converge at the Jefferson Park Station, marked by a statue of its namesake Thomas Jefferson.

While the area north of the Chicago River stretching up towards North Avenue now has a glitzy retail corridor and equally glitzy mansions and residences, it was once relatively isolated from the Loop.

What most people call Garfield Park is a combination of two Chicago community areas: East Garfield Park and West Garfield Park.

To many Chicagoans, Forest Park is simply the end of the Blue Line: if you want to go west, board the Forest Park-bound train.

Now a quiet suburb with grand mansions and tree-lined streets, suburban Evanston was once home to the Potawatomi people.

The Englewood community and its residents are often at the center of a city-wide conversation about how to support communities that have suffered from disinvestment.