December 1999
Lin Dou from the University Library is appointed as webmaster of the Chicago Imagebase web site.
Early November 1999
The GIS demonstration of the North Lawndale Property Information System is available online at http://chicagobase.lib.uic.edu. This is an ongoing research project of the UIC Chicago Imagebase and the City Design Center in support of the work of community development organizations in North Lawndale. The GIS system is being developed with Arc View and Arc/Info and is served to the Internet with Arc View Internet Map Server. It's an experimental site and resides on a NT server at the University Library. Currently available for test purpose are the parcel map, street network, property assessment, historically significant buildings, aerial views, and generalized land use, etc.