Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago
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WikiProject Chicago was started on July 5, 2005 to coordinate work on articles related to the article Chicago in the English Wikipedia. Some Wikipedians have adopted this as a project to better organize information in articles related to the city of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. This is where you can participate in the voting for or nomination of future Chicago Collaboration of the Week articles.
Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the Talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need serious work or that you feel require attention below in the Open Tasks sections.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims to coordinate improvment efforts on articles related to Chicago and the surrounding area. It is also an aim of this project to bring the Chicago city article up to Featured Article status, in part by bringing it up to the standards defined by WikiProject Cities.
[edit] Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.
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[edit] Members
Project members, please add {{ChicagoWikiProject-Member}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.
[edit] Administrators
Wikipedia Administrators and System Operators have essential tools at their disposal to greatly improve WikiProject Chicago articles. Please utilize them for tasks you find needing their assistance and attention.
- Gerald Farinas, Chicago, Illinois
- Ilyanep, Carol Stream, Illinois
- Kelly Martin, Niles, Illinois
- Kukini, South Suburbs
[edit] Editors
- Twintone - Uptown Chicago
- Gpyoung-Chicago, IL
- mlaird1 - Near NW side, Loyola University student.
- wwe_stacykeibler_fan - Chicago, IL
- Tedernst - Little Village, Chicago
- Tvaughn05 - Northwest Indiana, formerly of Dolton, IL.
- BMIComp - Chicagoland, IL
- User:Peaceman
- Dralwik (currently stuck in Coralville, Iowa)
- shsilver, (Deerfield, IL)
- Oo64eva, (Chicago)
- HollyAm (SW 'burbs)
- tew (Ravenswood, Chicago)
- Agriculture (Champaign, IL) -- avowed fan of the soverign city-state of Chicago
- Jpers36 (Crown Point, Indiana)
- Linnwood (Printer's Row, Chicago, Illinois)
- 內布拉斯加
- Jasenlee (Lincoln Square, Chicago)
- SparqMan (Deerfield, IL
- DS1953 - Evanston
- DavidH -- (Chicago offspring, UI journ. grad)
- Boreas231 (Hyde Park-University of Chicago student)
- siafu -- Ravenswood, Chicago
- LpAngelRob - Carol Stream, Illinois, though originally from Roselle, Illinois.
- User:Animereadabouter2 east side
- McHenry (McHenry County, IL) Recently transplanted after many years as a resident of Chicago's northwest side.
- GKG1981 - Lakeview, Chicago
- Nature1984 - Avondale, Chicago
- Mindfrieze - Bucktown, Chicago
- Dan - U of Chicago.
- The Redbird -- originally from Harvey, Illinois, and well versed in the south suburban region.
- Duncanr - IIT grad/student/staff, living in Chicago
- Isipeoria - Myrtle Beach, SC (lived in Third Lake for many years}
- NickCatal - Loyola University Chicago student
- Sujacal - Walter Payton College Prep student
- Wgfinley -- (Round Lake, IL)
- A.J.A. -- Zion, Illinois
- Matt Hucke -- Logan Square -- graveyard specialist ([1])
- Whatcanuexpect_ -- Lakeview, Chicago
- User:AKeen
- User:Robovski Now in Fife, Scotland lived on the NW side for 20 years and still vists family there annually.
- User:Voice_of_Reason - (Beverly-Morgan Park, Chicago)
- Krash (Talk)
- OrbitOneUS/DK Born in Chicago, in Roskilde, Denmark.
- seinman Born in Chicago, grew up in south suburbs, currently attending Columbia College
- Tubezone old fogey, self-employed entrepreneur of Brighton Park, Chicago.
- Pal5017 - Lived in Gurnee a few years ago
- TauNeutrino - Park Ridge, so things seem wrong when I don't hear planes overhead
- Astuishin-Chicago
- kaosfere - Buffalo Grove, IL
- Trillian1138 - Evanston, Illinois born-and-raised, currently an undergrad at Northwestern University
- dima - Northwest Indiana (Munster)
- LancerSTFU - NW suburbs, moving to Da City in a year or so.
- MKS- Downtown Chicago
- User:Ace-o-aces - Born and Raised in Chicagoland
- User:TonyTheTiger - Hyde Park, Chicago since 2000
- TheQuandry - Hyde Park, Chicago, formerly of Deerfield, IL (and other non-Chicago related places)
[edit] Open Tasks
Feel free to add any articles that need to be addressed or improved to this list. When adding a page, place {{ChicagoWikiProject}} on the articles talk page.
Here are some open WikiProject Chicago tasks:
- Turn Chicago into a featured article
- Add photographs taken away from the Loop.
- Mention cultural features of the city beyond those that are immediately visible to tourists.
- Improve the articles listed in Category:Chicago stubs and identify and tag new Chicago-related stub articles.
- WOCH
- Adler Planetarium
- Area code 312
- Chase Tower (Chicago)
- Belle Shore Apartment Hotel
- Blackstone Hotel
- Blackstone Library
- Brookfield Zoo
- Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel
- Chicago City Railway
- Chicago Landmark
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange
- Chicago Plan Commission
- Cloverhill Bakery
- Commercial Club of Chicago
- DuSable Museum
- Edgewater Beach Hotel
- Frontera Grill
- Goodman Theatre
- Harris Bank
- Hull House
- Hyde Park House
- IBM Plaza
- Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- James R. Thompson Center
- Lake Point Tower
- Lester Crown
- Marquette Building (Chicago)
- Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art
- Maxwell Street Polish
- McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
- Merchants Club
- Michigan Avenue Bridge
- Museum of Broadcast Communications
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Nancy Fowler McCormick
- National Museum of Mexican Art
- North Park Theological Seminary
- Oak Street (Chicago)
- Ontarioville
- The Peace Museum
- Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
- Playboy Entertainment
- Playboy Licensing
- Playboy Online
- Playboy Publishing
- Printer's Row, Chicago
- R. Eden Martin
- Redmoon Theater
- Robert E. Johnson
- Smart Museum of Art
- Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows
- Smurfit-Stone Building
- Spooky Zoo Spectacular
- The Everest Restaurant
- The Levee
- Tom Gaudette
- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
- Ukrainian National Museum
- WLUW
- William Wrigley III
- Improve sub-articles referenced in Chicago:
- Climate of Chicago talks about averages, but the weather is characterized by extremes. No mention of the huge variation in conditions across the area at a given time.
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- There are some stats now about one-day temp swings and extremes. OK? DavidH 06:59, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
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- Community areas of Chicago there are 77 subpages here, surely someone can contribute something.
- Demographics of Chicago needs to describe the various ethnic enclaves.
- Geography of Chicago needs to discuss what the land was like before all those skyscrapers went up.
- Notable citizens of Chicago - could be livened up with some pictures, heavy on entertainment/politics types, short on scientists/economists/architects
- Law and government of Chicago - no mention of voting, err, "irregularities"
- Federal troops arrive in Chicago to assist in maintaining order after the death of Martin Luther King.
- Steven Pera and Alan Schwanderer unsuccessfully attempt to poison Chicago's water supply in a very ambitious plot to kill all of mankind and repopulate the world.
- Death of Mayor Richard J. Daley from a heart attack in his doctor's office at the Drake Hotel.
- Short reign of Mayor Eugene Sawyer. (Who is penniless and near-destitute in 2005?)
- Election of Mayor Michael Bilandic.
- Election of Mayor Jane Byrne after 1979 snowfall angers Chicagoans enough to defy "The Machine". (Mike Royko writes an article expressing his sincere pride in the way Chicago voters grabbed their power back.)
- Mayor Jane Byrne takes up residence in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in order to improve city services in the project.
- Election of Mayor Harold Washington after close race with Bernie Epton, in which race was a major focal point.
- Alderman Ed Vrydolyak leads 29 alderman who oppose virtually everything Harold Washington seeks to accomplish.
- Mayor Richard M. Daley bulldozes Meigs Field in the middle of the night.
- Landmarks of Chicago - pitifully short list
- Parks of Chicago - another meager list; C'mon, this is "Urbs in Horto"!
- Find a place in the existing template for the following articles:
- Verify and Provide Sources For
[edit] Requested Articles
- Richard J. Daley College
- Kennedy-King College
- Malcolm X College
- Olive-Harvey College
- Harry S. Truman College
- Wilbur Wright College
- Category:Chicago politics (see Category:Government of Chicago)
- Blackstone Theatre
- Timothy Blackstone
- John Burroughs Drake
- Marshall Field and Company Building
[edit] Template for Chicago
This is an outline that was proposed on the Chicago talk page awhile ago. It seems a little long to me, but its a good start towards making the article more in-depth. I think we can also revise it to include more Chicago-specific topics (ie. Under Law and Government-a sub section about machine politics since Chicago is (sadly) pretty well known for that)
- History
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- This needs to read less like a timeline. The chicago fire needs to be expanded on a bit, as it destroyed the whole city. -- BMIComp (talk)
- Agreed-History section is a lot of nothing-Expand Important events ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- Agree in principle but as a minor technicality the chicago fire didn't actually destroy the whole city. It certainly left major parts of it in ruins but much of the early neighborhood growth on the North, West and South side was a direct result of the fire. Many of the neighborhoods existed then but population and industry was concentrated in the loop. Maybe I'm being too picky. Jasenlee 21:29, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
- Agreed-History section is a lot of nothing-Expand Important events ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- This needs to read less like a timeline. The chicago fire needs to be expanded on a bit, as it destroyed the whole city. -- BMIComp (talk)
- Law and government
- Crime (proposed)
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- Social & Contemporary Issues (proposed)
- Environment (proposed)
- Geography
- Climate
- I've heard that towns east of Chicago (downwind) have received higher amounts of precipitation since Chicagoan industry grew in the 1920s. Can we verify and include this? Dralwik 01:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Bodies of water
- Agriculture (proposed)
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- Is there much agriculture in the city itself? -- BMIComp (talk)
- Nope-I would lose this one ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- I would suggest that while the Chicago article probably doesn't warrant a traditional Agriculture section we should consider the many Farmer Markets that operate around the city. Perhaps something like this would belong in a different section. Thoughts? Jasenlee 21:29, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
- Maybe we should not rule this out. Wouldn't the forest preserves throughout the Chicagoland Area fall under this category? Kukini 20:28, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
- Nope-I would lose this one ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- Is there much agriculture in the city itself? -- BMIComp (talk)
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- Flora (proposed)
- Maps (proposed)
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- Urban Area
- Suburbs
- Economy
- Major industries and products
- Taxes
- Demographics
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- Households
- Age
- Income
- Demolingustics (proposed)
- Education (proposed)
- Public education (proposed)
- Private education (proposed)
- Charter schools (proposed)
- Libraries (proposed)
- Colleges & universities
- Communications and media
- Arts & culture
- Museums & Galleries (proposed)
- Zoos (proposed)
- Aquariums (proposed)
- Cultural Centers (proposed)
- Buildings & Landmarks (proposed)
- Music (proposed)
- Film & TV (proposed)
- Theater & Stage (proposed)
- Folklore (proposed)
- Cuisine (proposed)
- Parades & Holidays (proposed)
- Sports
- College (proposed)
- Professional
- Stadiums (proposed)
- Health & medicine
- Transportation
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- I would get rid of both of these and make this section more about CTA and roads/highways ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- I wouldn't because I think other items like Taxis or Airports are significant and would in my opinion be appropriate under a Transportation section. Jasenlee 21:29, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
- I would get rid of both of these and make this section more about CTA and roads/highways ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Public Transportation (New Proposed) Mass transit in Chicago Metra Pace (transit) Chicago 'L' Chicago Transit Authority
- Roads and Highways (New Proposed)
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- There is already Streets and highways of Chicago; is this not enough? Kelly Martin 03:34, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, perhaps the person who added this didn't see that section. Jasenlee 21:29, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
- There is already Streets and highways of Chicago; is this not enough? Kelly Martin 03:34, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
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- Traffic (New Proposed)
- Taxis (proposed)
- Bicycling in Chicago
- Tourism and recreation
- Events & Festivals (proposed)
- Shopping (proposed)
- Attractions
- Utilities & Infrastructure
- Internet (proposed)
- Water (proposed)
- Sewer (proposed)
- Gas (proposed)
- Religion (proposed)-I would think that this whole section can go under People and Culture ----Gpyoung talk 00:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- Notable houses of worship (proposed)
- Sources and further reading (proposed)
Now, this is a very rough list. It needs to be consolidated and revised, but I think step one for the Chicago article is reorganizing it and this is a good start. Add any section-sepcific comments directly to the list and feel free to add to it or move things around. --Gpyoung 9 July 2005 17:09 (UTC)
I agree that this is a rough list but I think that we should always keep a living version of it as over time I've used it as inspiration on topics to write about. Many times it has spawned a bit of colorful research and has given me ideas for other sub articles. I suspect it will/does the same for others. Perhaps members of this project can develop a voting process for anytime one of these new sections is promoted to the main article? Jasenlee 23:47, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Project Categories
These categories are often used in Chicago-related articles. Their use is subjective, however; for questions, please refer to the talk page for any information on these categories. Not included are geographic categories, which have already been assigned by bots.
Please assist fellow WikiProject Chicago contributors by listing Chicago-related categories they should be adding their pages to! --Rob 15:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- Category:WikiProject Chicago — a catch-all for discussion pages of topics in WikiProject Chicago
- Category:Illinois state highways — For confirmed state highways maintained by the state of Illinois
- Category:Chicagoland bicycle trails — For Chicagoland area bicycle trails of significant length and importance
- Category:Transportation in Chicago — For transportation related articles; includes a large number of subcategories as well