Welcome to chicago city directories

The Chicago 'I Will' maiden holds her head in confusion and distress, surrounded by hundreds of small children with mischievous looks. Some children are carrying signs with street names, indicating the old and new names.
Cartoon from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, August 16, 1913. Chicago had just undergone a massive spate of street renaming.

This is a website for the online Chicago history community to come together and build a searchable database of historical Chicago city directory data, including a street-naming and numbering historical dataset.

This site is currently in preview status and the interface is subject to change. Please provide any comments/feedback to tew@introvert.net or @tewhalen on twitter.

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