Slicing Up Chicago: Wards, Communities and Neighborhoods
Submitted by frereg_10 on Thu, 2015-10-15 16:01From the first days of settlement, Chicago was divided into three sections: the north, south and west sides.
From the first days of settlement, Chicago was divided into three sections: the north, south and west sides.
Do you want to know more about your ancestor’s meat market? Barber shop? Candy store? Tavern? Here are a dozen places to look:
The Chicago City Council Proceedings are the primary documents that record the business of the city. The Proceedings include: petitions; ordinances; committee reports; reports on the city’s infrastructure, such as the construction, maintenance and re-naming of city streets....
Chicago city directories were issued in 1870, 1871, 1872 and 1873, making it appear as if the publishers never skipped a beat following the Great Chicago Fire on October 8, 1871.
For family historians searching in Chicago, the Great Fire of 1871 still causes problems. The fire destroyed the county courthouse and almost all of its records, including many of the typical ones genealogists rely on: civil registrations, vital records, deeds, and so on.
On Saturday, September 27th we posted the news thatChicagoAncestors.org had been taken off-line.
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Although the Newberry has a complete collection of Chicago city directories, there are no directories in the microfilm drawer (or online) for 1918-1922 or from 1924-1928.