WP:WikiProject Chicago

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WikiProject Chicago was started on July 5, 2005, to coordinate work on the article Chicago. Some Wikipedians have adopted this as a project to coordinate work on articles related to the Chicago metropolitan area and the city of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. This broader set of articles is now the project's main focus.

Please feel free to add your username to the List of Editors. Also, add anything that you feel require attention to the Open tasks section. If you have found a useful online source, please add it to the Resources section.

Scope

File:Chicago bw.jpg, Illinois]] The Chicago WikiProject concerns the coordination, creation, development and organization of efforts on articles related to Chicago and the surrounding metropolitan area, especially Cook County, Illinois.

To view a comprehensive list of counties that are within the scope of the Chicago Project see the counties section of the Chicago metropolitan area navbox.

Goals

Get this project organized and focused
Build all Top-importance Chicago articles to Good Article status, at a minimum

Announcements

Follow the Chicago Featured Topic Drive
Take a look at the new review department
Please follow the discussions on the project discussions page

Statistics

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Chicago articles by quality statistics}}

Departments

Manager/Director: TonyTheTiger

Related WikiProjects

=Parent=

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

==Descendant projects==

=Illinois=

=Other states=

Reviewed content

WikiProject Chicago is approximately the 124th most active project (2016). Below is some of the project's best work. For a complete list for the project, see: Recognized content, and Popular pages.

Those looking for articles to nominate as good and featured articles may want to look at Chicago articles by size.

Open tasks

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Here are some open WikiProject Chicago tasks:

Help edit a Chicago-related article that has been marked as needing urgent attention or needing an infobox
Add other Wikiproject's categories and banners to appropriate Chicago-related articles
Add the restored :Category:Films shot in Chicago to all the films [http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalDeptCategoryAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@1684842681.1163721200@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddjfmgdiigcefecelldffhdfgm.0&deptCategoryOID=-536893318&contentType=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&entityName=Film+Office&deptMainCategoryOID=-536893318 listed on this City of Chicago web page].
Add citations to people on the List of people from Chicago and /Unreferenced BLPs. Feeling bold? Remove people that aren't from Chicago!

=Under-represented topics=

Please put topics you think could use improvement below:

Neighborhoods in Chicago - see talk page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chicago#Neighborhoods
Amateur Sports Leagues in Chicago
Economy of Chicago
Businesses in Chicago
Chicago Accent
Health care in Chicago
Medical schools
Professional organizations
History of Chicago
Chicago Prostitute War of 1857
Metra Stations
Shakman Decrees
Smart Museum of Art - also made a request in the Museums WikiProject
Vautravers building - 947-949 W. Newport Ave

=Photograph requests=

{{category see also|Chicago articles needing photographs|Wikipedia requested photographs in Chicago}}

Ogden International School
East Campus: 24 W. WALTON ST., CHICAGO, IL 60610
West Campus: 1250 W. ERIE ST., CHICAGO, IL 60642
Consulate General of Thailand in Chicago - 700 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL
United Airlines Operations Center and former headquarters at 1200 East Algonquin Road, Elk Grove Township
Francis George - Cardinal archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago,
Sears Holding Corporation headquarters - 3333 Beverly Road Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
Walgreens headquarters - 200 Wilmot Road Deerfield, IL 60015
Sara Lee headquarters - 3500 Lacey Road Downers Grove, IL 60515-5424
Headquarters of the Chicago Shimpo, 2045 S. Arlington Heights Rd., Suite 108C Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Chicago Futabakai Japanese School - 2550 Arlington Heights Rd.　Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Emerson Middle School (Former Chicago Futabakai Japanese School) - 8101 Cumberland Ave., Niles, IL
Arie Crown Hebrew Day School (Former Chicago Futabakai Japanese School) - 4600 Main St., Skokie, IL
South Side Community Art Center - Bronzeville, Chicago
Irish American Heritage Center - Irving Park, Chicago
John Crerar Library - Hyde Park, Chicago
Wrigley Field renovations – Lake View, Chicago
List of diplomatic missions and trade organizations in Chicago images section - most buildings are on or near Michigan Ave.
Assyrian American Association, 1618 West Devon Avenue
Assyrian Pentecostal Church, 1748 West Devon Avenue
Headquarters of/Sede de :en:American Dental Association - 211 East Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611-2678
Former headquarters of the Chicago Shimpo/ 「シカゴ新報」旧本社, 4670 N Manor St, Chicago, IL
Jewish facility with Korean writing, 4900 block of North Kimball Avenue (3400 W.) in Albany Park area (Cutler p. 196)
Seoul Drive sign and area at 4800 N. Lawrence Avenue - See if you can get photo of Korean restaurants/Businesses in picture (Are Seo Hae Restaurant and the Korean newspaper vending machines still there?)
Korean businesses at 3300 West Lawrence Avenue (4800 N.)
Vietnamese area at Argyle Avenue (5000 N.) in Uptown Chicago
Headquarters of Jewel-Osco - 150 Pierce, Itasca, IL 60143
Headquarters of Dominick's - 711 Jorie Boulevard, Oak Brook IL
Jel Sert headquarters: Route 59 & Conde Street West Chicago, IL 60185
Vautravers building - 947-949 W. Newport Ave
Casa Jesus - 750 Wabash Ave

=Backlogs=

WikiProject Chicago currently has several severe backlogs related to assessment of article quality and importance.

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Reviews and discussions

See current discussion details at: WikiProject Chicago/Review. Although no discussion is ongoing, it is worth noting the project's unclear notability articles.

Members

Member signup and renewal can be found at: WikiProject Chicago/members.

Templates

=Project=

Use {{tlx|WikiProject Chicago}} on talk pages of topics that are, or should be, a part of the project. Please see the assessment department for further instructions:

=Member=

;Banner

Copy and paste {{tlx|ChicagoWikiProject-Member}} within your user page to identify that you are a member of WikiProject Chicago:

;Userboxes

If you'd like a userbox:

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{{tlx\|User Chicago WikiProject-Member}}	{{User Chicago WikiProject-Member\|nocat=true}}
{{tlx\|User WPChicago}}	{{User WPChicago\|nocat=true}}
{{tlx\|User Born Chicago}}	{{User Born Chicago\|nocat=true}}
{{tlx\|User Chicago}}	{{User Chicago\|nocat=true}}
{{tlx\|User Chicago Animals}}	{{User Chicago Animals\|nocat=true}}

;Wikipedia ad

Use {{tlp|Wikipedia ads|2=ad=219}} to add an advertisement for this Project to your page. (Please don't put these ads anywhere other than userspace.)

=Barnstar=

You can find this barnstar and many others at WP:WPPA, where it is listed for use with the following syntax: {{tlsp|ChicagoBarnstar|message ~~~~}}.

=Navboxes=

=Stub=

For pages that aren't complete, copy and paste {{tlx|Chicago-stub}} at the end of article pages that need expansion:

See: "How to mark an article as a stub" for information about when, where within an article, and the protocol to follow when articles overlap several stub categories.

=Subpages=

List of {{subpages}}

Resources

Some of the verifiable sources on Chicago that we have found are:

[http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/nameChanges/start.pdf Chicago Historical Society - Names and numbers of all Chicago streets] - Every past and present street in Chicago, with etymologies for most
[http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/poptopics/index.php Chicago Public Library - Popular Topics]
[http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/At-a-glance.aspx Chicago Public Schools: At-a-glance]
[http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/home.do City of Chicago] - official website
[http://www.earlychicago.com EarlyChicago] - A collection of entries on the early history of Chicago
[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org The Encyclopedia of Chicago] - very good, few errors
[http://www.gapersblock.com Gapers Block] - Chicago news and history, carefully edited
[http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase The University of Illinois at Chicago's Imagebase] - Historical images and even more text
[http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1 WTTW's Chicago Stories]
[http://www.pritzkermilitary.org Pritzker Military Museum & Library] for military topics related to Chicago & Illinois; online catalog and digital collections are free to search; some of the programming in the "What's On" section of the website is restricted to members
[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ArticleArchives Chicago Reader] article archive
[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/ Chicago Tribune] archive

Category:WikiProject Cities of the United States

Category:WikiProject Illinois

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