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.

Recently edited streets:

Oct 20 | Alaska St (→ Weed St)
Oct 20 | E 29th Pl (current)
Oct 20 | Anna St (→ 29th Pl)
Oct 20 | Ashley St (→ Race Ave)
Oct 20 | Avon Pl (→ Tilden St)
Oct 20 | N Michigan Ave (current)
Oct 20 | Tower Court Pl (→ Michigan Ave)
Oct 20 | N Ada St (current)
Oct 20 | Walker Ct (→ Ada St)
Oct 20 | Wellington Ct (→ University Ave)