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What is the history of Jarvis Square in Rogers Park? Did it once house a small grocer? Drugstore? It has such a small town feel in the city

Asked by Anonymous

How did the Auburn Gresham neighborhood get its name? (Seems like a simple enough question to answer, yet no one seems to know!)

Asked by Renee Burnett

Driving Lake Shore Drive & I noticed the water level for Lake Michigan seems high. Dangerous? Highest ever? Issue for breakwall worker...

Asked by Jim

Did RJ Grunts in Lincoln Park actually create the first salad bar as they claim in their menu?

Asked by Emily Moore

I live in the Avondale neighborhood and everyday see a smoke stack that says (B) Elmont Laundry. I notice there are simlar structures aroun...

Asked by Kerry Smith

Why does Chicago have so many parks? Why are so many neighborhoods named after the local parks?

Asked by Rohit Agarwal

What's the story behind our industrial "neighborhoods"? Printer's Row, the strip of what used to be shoe factories in the loop, etc.

Asked by G. Hollander

Why do barber shops and salons need special zoning approvals so often? What's the history there?

Asked by Anonymous

When did CPS begin and stop the practice of having boys swim naked in gym class?

Asked by Anonymous

Where did they get all the dirt to raise the city in 1858?

Asked by Dallas Holladay

What's up with the non-standard lots and unique homes/yards in the middle of the cookie cutter bungalows and ranches in West Lawn?

Asked by Kristine Mayle

What's the story behind the brown honorary street signs in Chicago?

Asked by Neel

The city's most influential export is perhaps the "Chicago school" of economics. How have their ideas influenced local Chicago politics?

Asked by Kevin

Why does Bronzeville have so many churches?

Asked by Susan Jeong

Why are there so many intersections without left turn arrows?

Asked by Charlie Post

A great roads episode. The pothole ? unanswered. A:Improper water drainage under pavement. Followup?

Asked by Art Malm

What attracted so many Irish immigrants to Chicago, even thought it was so far away from the East Coast ports from Ireland?

Asked by Anonymous

What happened to Mrs. O'Leary after the Chicago fire?

Asked by Anonymous

How do the CTA buses get their route numbers?

Asked by alejandra

What happened to the fort before Fort Dearborn? The Treaty of Greenville (1795) says one formerly stood "at the mouth of the Chikago river."

Asked by Ben Hunt

Why is the kennedy expressway after the split only three lanes in each direction? They knew Ohare would be built so why not make it wider?

Asked by Benjamin Cohen

Why does the city smell every time it rains?

Asked by Emily Elisar

Why doesn't Chicago have a downtown strip club?

Asked by Marques J Stewart

Chicago seems to play a central role in the roots of African American Islam. When did that begin, and why Chicago?

Asked by Uzma Noormohamed

Why is there a small street in Lakeview East called "Elaine Place," when this street doesn't extend to anywhere else in the city?

Asked by Dan Maselter

At the base of the Illinois centennial monument in Logan square there is a sculpture of Hermes. Why?

Asked by Nolan Steenberg

Did the German Bund run camps to prepare to take over Chicago during WWII? My late father claimed the land I grew up on was just that.

Asked by Anonymous

Was the stretch of Racine between Belmont and Diversey in Lakeview formerly a commercial street? Why isn't it anymore?

Asked by Anne Morrissy

What happened to all the neighborhood bars and storefronts on sidestreet corners I see turned into private houses?

Asked by Peter Bhat Harkins

I used to swim at a pool behind the fire station at 76th and Pulaski. Were there other pools? Why did CFD get involved in public pools?

Asked by Adrienne Mann

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