A 180-year-old map of Chicago, drawn for a New York real estate investor when this city was a small western outpost of 350 people, was found last winter in a box in a north suburban estate sale ...

She found the site by pulling out one of her maps, printed years ago by the Sanborn Publishing Co. of New York, which also had branches in Chicago and ... copies of its old maps.

Due credit to the Chicago City Clerk's office (@chicityclerk on Twitter) for releasing the new map in handy computer-readable form.

It was an amusement park that was supposed to put Bolingbrook on the map. Instead the Old Chicago mega-mall and amusement park went bankrupt a year after it opened in 1975, closed in 1980 and was ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago-based antique map dealer has recently come into possession of the original architectural plans for the old Chicago Stadium. At the time, the stadium was the largest indoor ...