Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

WikiProject Chicago was started on July 5, 2005, to coordinate work on the article Chicago. Some Wikipedians have adopted this as a project to coordinate work on articles related to the Chicago metropolitan area and the city of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. This broader set of articles is now the project's main focus.

Please feel free to add your username to the List of Editors. Also, add anything that you feel require attention to the Open tasks section. If you have found a useful online source, please add it to the Resources section.

 Scope The Chicago WikiProject concerns the coordination, creation, development and organization of efforts on articles related to Chicago and the surrounding metropolitan area, especially Cook County, Illinois.

To view a comprehensive list of counties that are within the scope of the Chicago Project see the counties section of the Chicago metropolitan area navbox.

Goals Announcements
 * 1) Get this project organized and focused
 * 2) Build all Top-importance Chicago articles to Good Article status, at a minimum
 * Follow the Chicago Featured Topic Drive
 * Take a look at the new review department
 * Please follow the discussions on the project discussions page

Departments
Manager/Director: TonyTheTiger

Parent
The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

Descendant projects

 * WikiProject Chicago Bears (inactive)
 * WikiProject Chicago Cubs
 * WikiProject National Basketball Association/Chicago Bulls task force

Illinois

 * WikiProject Illinois
 * WikiProject Illinois State Routes

Other states

 * WikiProject Indiana
 * WikiProject Wisconsin

Reviewed content
WikiProject Chicago is approximately the 124th most active project (2016). Below is some of the project's best work. For a complete list for the project, see: Recognized content, and Popular pages.

Those looking for articles to nominate as good and featured articles may want to look at Chicago articles by size.

Open tasks


Here are some open WikiProject Chicago tasks:
 * Help edit a Chicago-related article that has been marked as needing urgent attention or needing an infobox
 * Add other Wikiproject's categories and banners to appropriate Chicago-related articles
 * Add the restored Category:Films shot in Chicago to all the films listed on this City of Chicago web page.
 * Add citations to people on the List of people from Chicago and /Unreferenced BLPs. Feeling bold? Remove people that aren't from Chicago!

Under-represented topics
Please put topics you think could use improvement below:
 * Neighborhoods in Chicago - see talk page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chicago
 * Amateur Sports Leagues in Chicago
 * Economy of Chicago
 * Businesses in Chicago
 * Chicago Accent
 * Health care in Chicago
 * Medical schools
 * Professional organizations
 * History of Chicago
 * Chicago Prostitute War of 1857
 * Metra Stations
 * Shakman Decrees
 * Smart Museum of Art - also made a request in the Museums WikiProject
 * Vautravers building - 947-949 W. Newport Ave

Photograph requests

 * Ogden International School
 * East Campus: 24 W. WALTON ST., CHICAGO, IL 60610
 * West Campus: 1250 W. ERIE ST., CHICAGO, IL 60642
 * Consulate General of Thailand in Chicago - 700 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL
 * United Airlines Operations Center and former headquarters at 1200 East Algonquin Road, Elk Grove Township
 * Francis George - Cardinal archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago,
 * Sears Holding Corporation headquarters - 3333 Beverly Road Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
 * Walgreens headquarters - 200 Wilmot Road Deerfield, IL 60015
 * Sara Lee headquarters - 3500 Lacey Road Downers Grove, IL 60515-5424
 * Headquarters of the Chicago Shimpo, 2045 S. Arlington Heights Rd., Suite 108C Arlington Heights, IL 60005
 * Chicago Futabakai Japanese School - 2550 Arlington Heights Rd.　Arlington Heights, IL 60004
 * Emerson Middle School (Former Chicago Futabakai Japanese School) - 8101 Cumberland Ave., Niles, IL
 * Arie Crown Hebrew Day School (Former Chicago Futabakai Japanese School) - 4600 Main St., Skokie, IL
 * South Side Community Art Center - Bronzeville, Chicago
 * Irish American Heritage Center - Irving Park, Chicago
 * John Crerar Library - Hyde Park, Chicago
 * Wrigley Field renovations – Lake View, Chicago
 * List of diplomatic missions and trade organizations in Chicago images section - most buildings are on or near Michigan Ave.
 * Assyrian American Association, 1618 West Devon Avenue
 * Assyrian Pentecostal Church, 1748 West Devon Avenue
 * Headquarters of/Sede de en:American Dental Association - 211 East Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611-2678
 * Former headquarters of the Chicago Shimpo/ 「シカゴ新報」旧本社, 4670 N Manor St, Chicago, IL
 * Jewish facility with Korean writing, 4900 block of North Kimball Avenue (3400 W.) in Albany Park area (Cutler p. 196)
 * Seoul Drive sign and area at 4800 N. Lawrence Avenue - See if you can get photo of Korean restaurants/Businesses in picture (Are Seo Hae Restaurant and the Korean newspaper vending machines still there?)
 * Korean businesses at 3300 West Lawrence Avenue (4800 N.)
 * Vietnamese area at Argyle Avenue (5000 N.) in Uptown Chicago
 * Headquarters of Jewel-Osco - 150 Pierce, Itasca, IL 60143
 * Headquarters of Dominick's - 711 Jorie Boulevard, Oak Brook IL
 * Jel Sert headquarters: Route 59 & Conde Street West Chicago, IL 60185
 * Vautravers building - 947-949 W. Newport Ave

Backlogs
WikiProject Chicago currently has several severe backlogs related to assessment of article quality and importance.

Reviews and discussions
See current discussion details at: WikiProject Chicago/Review. Although no discussion is ongoing, it is worth noting the project's unclear notability articles.

Members
Member signup and renewal can be found at: WikiProject Chicago/members.

Project

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Member

 * Banner
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 * Userboxes


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Barnstar

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Stub

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See: "How to mark an article as a stub" for information about when, where within an article, and the protocol to follow when articles overlap several stub categories.

Subpages

 * List of

Resources
Some of the verifiable sources on Chicago that we have found are:
 * Chicago Historical Society - Names and numbers of all Chicago streets - Every past and present street in Chicago, with etymologies for most
 * Chicago Public Library - Popular Topics
 * Chicago Public Schools: At-a-glance
 * City of Chicago - official website
 * EarlyChicago - A collection of entries on the early history of Chicago
 * The Encyclopedia of Chicago - very good, few errors
 * Gapers Block - Chicago news and history, carefully edited
 * The University of Illinois at Chicago's Imagebase - Historical images and even more text
 * WTTW's Chicago Stories
 * Pritzker Military Museum & Library for military topics related to Chicago & Illinois; online catalog and digital collections are free to search; some of the programming in the "What's On" section of the website is restricted to members
 * Chicago Reader article archive
 * Chicago Tribune archive
 * Chicago Tribune archive