The Field Guide to Chicago Buildings was developed as a collaborative effort between the City Design Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Teachers' Center of Northeastern Illinios University with funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the United States Department of Education.









It is often possible to determine a great deal about the history of a place just by looking carefully and thinking carefully about what you see.

Question # 1:
In this photograph there are streets on the grid and diagonals. Which came first? How do you know?

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Photo by MacLean
Northwest Side/Addison/Kennedy Expressway
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