Wiki143:WikiProject Chicago

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Script error: No such module "Shortcut". 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.

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

Statistics

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Departments

Manager/Director: TonyTheTiger

Related WikiProjects

Parent

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

Descendant projects

Illinois

Other states

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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.

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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:

Under-represented topics

Please put topics you think could use improvement below:

Photograph requests

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  • 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. Template:Backlog progress bar Template:Backlog progress bar

Reviews and discussions

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

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Members

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

Templates

Project

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Member

Banner
  • Copy and paste Template:Tlx within your user page to identify that you are a member of WikiProject Chicago:

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Userboxes

If you'd like a userbox:

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Wikipedia ad
  • Use Template:Tlp to add an advertisement for this Project to your page. (Please don't put these ads anywhere other than userspace.)

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Barnstar

  • You can find this barnstar and many others at WP:WPPA, where it is listed for use with the following syntax: Template:Tlsp.

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Navboxes

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Stub

  • For pages that aren't complete, copy and paste Template:Tlx at the end of article pages that need expansion:

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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.

Categories

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Subpages

Resources

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

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