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Chicago Neighborhood Map Second Edition (Maps & Atlases)

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I love this map! I'm so glad to see it on Amazon.

In the early 90's I moved to Chicago, where this uniquely detailed map helped me learn my way around my new city. You can't understand Chicago without understanding its neighborhoods, and this map is the best way to learn how this great city fits together.

Now that I live in California, this map is a reminder of the many happy times I spent in Chicago: a friend I met in Ukrainian Village, a girl I dated in Bucktown, the many Cubs games I watched in Wrigleyville, and so on. I can even see the south-side birthplace of my great-great-grandfather.

I even enjoy the little mistakes: this is a hand-drawn map, not a cold computer-generated map, and tiny errors and corrections add to its quirky charm without diminishing its utility.

If you live in Chicago, or if you used to live in Chicago, this map is a treat! I'm buying my second copy and framing it.

To talk about Chicago to a Chicago native you have to speak in the language of neighborhoods and this map is the Rosetta stone to that language. I moved to the city in the late 80s and found that street maps were fine tools to navigate my way to a place with an address that I knew. But all the conversations with natives about that place were about the neighborhood. And neighborhoods can be elusive to define or even locate.

Standard street maps show little or no explicit neighborhood identification but this map shows all that you need. Note that this is NOT a thorough street map but that's not its purpose. The street info here is for reference to locate borders of the neighborhoods that all natives use to talk about and navigate in Chicago. This is an entertaining and useful tool to learn about a fascinating and complex city.

Chicago Neighbor Map is great product. Also seller sent it fast and in great, protective packaging.

This item is deceptive to say the least.It's hardly a map, it's just a patchwork of color blotches, hand drawn, unprecise and definitely ugly looking. Useless: don't throw your money away.