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Chicago is a huge and ethnically diverse city that has long been divided into many diverse neighborhoods, which are officially known as Chicago Community Areas (CCA). These all have numbers assigned to them by the city government, although they are not mentioned in journal or news articles. So you need to know the number of the community area in order to do effective research in many databases and reference publications. To find out where ethnic groups are concentrated, look in The Ethnic Handbook, located in the Reference Collection at F 548.9 .A 1 E 87 1996.
Chicago Community Areas by CCA number, with map.
Chicago Neighborhood Map . Hung in the Reference Collection.
You will also want to vist these institutions, as they have a variety of materials on Chicago
The Chicago Public Library, especially their Neighborhood History Research Collections.
The Newberry Library, especially their Neighborhood History Research Guide to their collections.
The University of Illinois at Chicago Daley Library, especially the Special Collections Department
Some appropriate reference books are also included with each section of Internet sites listed below.
* Chicago Community and Culture.
* Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. (Lots of statistics)
* New Communities.org. Contains a variety of information about Chicago neighborhoods.
* Chicago Census Facts Online.
* Chicago City Factbook Demographics.
* Chicago Police Crime Statistics.
* Chciago Region Fact Finder Census Information (University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies)
* Community Statistics by Zip Code.
* EveryBlock Chicago. Detailed statistics for very small geographic areas.
* Guide to Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicators. (Urban Institute, 2007)
* Local Community Fact Book : Chicago Metropolitan Area : Based on the 1970 and 1980 Censuses. Call number: Reference and General Collections HA 730 .C 5 L 63 1984.
* PL 94-171 Chicago Community Area (CCA) Profiles (Census 2000)
* SNAPS. From the U.S. Center for Disease Control. Snapshots of various Demographic Census data by zip code.
* Chicago and the Region, old maps.
* Chicagoland 6-County Atlas. Reference Desk G 1049 .C
5 A 6 2003.
This has very detailed maps of the Chicago Metro region.
Digital Atlas of Chicago and Cook County
Historical Chicago Maps from the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection.
Sanborn Frie Insurance Historical Atlas for Illinois .
