Chicago has 1,900 miles of alleys, making it the alley uppercase of the United States. WBEZ has been exploring the historical reasons why Chicago built then many dorsum alleys too why then many of them notwithstanding be today.
As usage of it's investigation into How Chicago Became the Country's Alley Capital WBEZ has created a Leaflet map highlighting the 1,900 miles of Chicago's Alleys. The map is maybe non the virtually interesting usage of the WBEZ storey only it does a skillful chore of visualizing the publish of dorsum alleys inward Chicago.
Using the map yous tin clearly run across the areas of Chicago which were built amongst alleys too the areas that were built without alleys. In the early on Twentieth Century Chicago started to laid upward suburbs without alleys. You tin run across this inward neighborhoods such equally Evanston, Naperville too Blue Island.
In fact it powerfulness endure quite interesting to compare the WBEZ alley map amongst Shaun Jacobsen's Chicago Building Age Map. The Chicago Building Age map allows yous to visualize the historic menstruation of Chicago's buildings then yous tin easily explore the historic menstruation of the buildings inward the white (non-alley) areas of the WBEZ alley map.
