Interactive History Map
Chicago is yours to explore! Visit important locations from each story and see how the city has both changed and stayed the same. Listen to story excerpts and investigate historical evidence.
Elementary
- Great Migration:
A Bronzeville Story - Sports History:
A Tough Call - Innovation and Entertainment:
The Best of the Fair - Transportation:
Joseph's Railroad Dreams - Economics
and Culture:
Hot Dog!
High School
- Abolitionist Movement in Chicago:
Halfway to Freedom - Public Housing and White Flight:
Where the Neighborhood Ends - Labor
and the Haymarket Affair:
His Father's Namesake - Progressivism,
Hull House, and Immigration:
Angelo's Saturdays - Great
Migration and the Jazz Age:
It's a Long Way from Home - Political
Activism and the 1968 Democratic National Convention:
Peace