Research Region

Chicago

Chicago works as a place-based view into the library, connecting 584 published records that show how this locality changes across type, status, and theme within Illinois.

Results

584

Nearby Terms

6

Connected

6

Broader term: Illinois

Articles

Research In Chicago

584 published articles

Chicago City Hall and Cook County Building

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chicago City Hall and Cook County Building, Chicago

Chicago Civic Building Active

Chicago's paired City Hall and County Building condense law, bureaucracy, architecture, and routine urban management into one Loop address where city and county government...

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Chicago City Hall and Cook County Building
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3
Updated
2026
Chicago Cultural Center

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Chicago Civic Building Active

The Chicago Cultural Center remains one of downtown's clearest public interiors, where municipal identity, preservation, and everyday access still meet inside a building grand...

Place
Chicago Cultural Center
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3
Updated
2026
University of Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

University of Chicago, Hyde Park

Chicago Campus / Institutional Active

In Hyde Park, the University of Chicago is easiest to read as a district rather than a bounded campus, with quadrangles, the Midway, museums,...

Place
University of Chicago
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Sources
3
Updated
2026
Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Record

Updated 2026

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Chicago Campus / Institutional Active

Illinois Institute of Technology puts Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's campus plan into direct contact with South Side land assembly, Crown Hall, and the...

Place
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Sources
4
Updated
2026
Cabrini-Green, Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

Cabrini-Green, Chicago

Chicago Neighborhood / District Demolished / Lost

Cabrini-Green now names a layered urban geography of Frances Cabrini row houses, vanished towers, replacement housing, vacant parcels, and high-value redevelopment rather than one...

Place
Cabrini-Green, Chicago
Coverage
District
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago

Chicago Neighborhood / District Demolished / Lost

Running for miles along State Street, the Robert Taylor Homes translated housing policy into monumental urban form on a scale unmatched elsewhere in the...

Place
Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago
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District
Sources
3
Updated
2026
South Works, Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

South Works, Chicago

Chicago Industrial Site Under Redevelopment

Along Chicago's southeast lakefront, South Works bound the neighborhood to steelmaking, lake shipping, immigrant and Black labor, and the industrial remaking of the shoreline....

Place
South Works, Chicago
Coverage
District
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Pullman, Chicago

Research Record

Updated 2026

Pullman, Chicago

Chicago Neighborhood / District Preserved

Pullman still lets industrial paternalism be read at neighborhood scale, where factory buildings, workers' housing, Hotel Florence, federal interpretation, and porter history remain in...

Place
Pullman, Chicago
Coverage
District
Sources
5
Updated
2026

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