Not many people outside of Chicago know that the city doesn't actually have an officially sanctioned list of neighborhoods like, say, New York. Instead, the city has 77 community areas—which ...

On the long-established official map of Chicago, there’s no Wicker Park, Pilsen or Bronzeville, but a University of Chicago professor has rolled out a project that might change that. The city ...

Scientists, including those at the University of Chicago, began this work in earnest about a decade ago in a quest to build a complete wiring diagram of the brain. This diagram – known as the ...

Dennis McClendon was a self-taught mapmaker whose work can be found in the 2004 “Encyclopedia of Chicago” and in CTA trains and stations across the city.