Places

Bill Rankin's 2009 "Chicago Boundaries"

This part of the collection focuses mainly on archival and current documentation and production of places. 

Chicago has changed a lot in the last 65 years, and these demographic changes have been documented. To see these images in a slideshow version and watch how Chicago's population has changed, click here.

City of Chicago - 1950 - Breakdown of Ethnic Groups by Neighborhood

City of Chicago - 1980 - Breakdown of Ethnic Groups in Neighborhoods

City of Chicago - 2010 - Concentrations of Ethnic Populations by Neighborhood

 Check out the population change in Chicago's neighborhoods between 2000 and 2010.

Population Change, 2000-2010 via StraightDope

 To look at an interactive map of Chicago's neighborhoods, click here.

For Curbed's Chicago Gentrification Watch, click here. 

I propose that Places constitute roughly 1/4 of the collection, and include maps by decade (1950-present), interactive slideshows that show the changing population (1), print and video clips of news items that show how certain neighborhoods become identified with particular groups or behaviors (representative samples by decade, approximately 10 pieces per).