Starting Points

• Chicago: A Historical Guide to the Neighborhoods: the Loop and South Side
  Glen E. Hoyt and Dominic Pacyga (1979)
  F548.68.A1 H64 1979, Open Shelf
  
  This guide to some of Chicago’s historic south side neighborhoods uses both words and images to create a historical and social iconography.
  
  
• Chicago and its Suburbs
  Everett Chamberlain (1874)
  720.973 I290Ccha, Special
  
  The last quarter is given over to short narratives of   
  subdivisions and suburbs that were outside the city in 1874.  Many of these, obviously, are now in the city.
  
  
• Chicago, City of Neighborhoods
  Dominic Pacyga and Ellen Skerrett (1986)
  F548.18 .P33 1986, Open Shelf
  
  In addition to describing the origins and development
  of the neighborhoods, the book uses historic and contemporary photographs to illustrate changes, which have taken place
  over the years. Also included are fifteen selected tours based on these neighborhood histories. 
  
  
• Forty-four Cities in the City of Chicago
  Chicago Plan Commission  (1942)
  711.41 C53pf, Stack 4
  
  A short narrative history of each of the 75 communities outlined by Burchard in 1935.