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	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
AT&T Corporate Center is the current Chicago COTW Every week, a Chicago-related article that is in need of substantial improvement is selected to be the Chicago COTW. Visit CHICOTW to nominate and vote for future COTWs. Please help improve this week's article to a higher standard of quality. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see a list of open tasks. See past CHICOTWs. Note our good articles.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

1 New CHICOTW
- 1.1 Chicago Collaboration of the Week?
2 CHICOTW vs. CHICOTM
3 Meetup
4 Scope
5 Wikipedia Day Awards
6 Chicago Humanities Festival
7 City Boundaries Map
8 Deletionist at large
9 Institute of Design IIT
10 Park Place Tower (Chicago)
11 Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration

Archives 1-(July 2005-Oct2006)

Welcome to WikiProject Chicago! This page was at one time focussed on improviing Chicago article. Some Wikipedians have adopted this as a project to better organize information in articles related to the city of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. Please feel free to post any suggestions or concerns here. For a list of this project's main objectives, see the Main Page. New members, please add your name to the Members list. TonyTheTiger 19:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New CHICOTW

I have changed the CHICOTW article which seems to have been unchanged for months. I am willing to continue to oversee selection if people are interested in nominating and editting articles. TonyTheTiger 21:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Collaboration of the Week?

I was thinking that it might be helpful to start a "Chicago Collaboration of the Week" (or maybe two weeks like the United States Collaboration of the Week). We have a great list of red links and fairly important sub articles (ie. Community Areas of Chicago has to potential to be an excellent article because of the cities great diversity) and it might behoove us to start coordinating work on them. Of course, we are all still working on Chicago, but there is more to be done then just that. I will start a page for the Chicago(land?) Collaboration of the Week and we could hold a discussion there and decide if we want to do this. --Gpyoung ^talk 20:35, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Update: I have created the Chicagoland Collaboration of the Week page. Please make any comments regarding it there. --Gpyoung ^talk 21:12, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

This page is believed to be inactive for sometime now. Is this an abandoned idea?--Twintone 16:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the collaboration and am awaiting editorial assistance. I will monitor. TonyTheTiger 01:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CHICOTW vs. CHICOTM

It is uncertain how many wikipedians are interested this project as it seems inactive. As such very modest amounts of edits have occurred on the CHICOTW. It is likely that this will be converted to a monthly collaboration. If anyone has an article they would like to nominate for the collaboration go to the collaboration page. TonyTheTiger 19:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

I am once again going to bring up the idea of a meetup. My preference is to have one somewhere around Davis Street in Evanston, as we seem to have had more interest from the north than from the south, but this is obviously not set in stone. In any case, the location should be convenient to public transit both for those lacking vehicles and especially for those likely to be visiting from out of town. Kelly Martin (talk) 18:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Wait, why would we meetup in the suburbs if this is a project for improving chicago? I mean, I know this is probably a group comprised fairly heavily of you suburbanites, but what sense is it that we make our ways to Evanston instead of somewhere acctually in the place we're trying to wiki? Solutus 01:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

We held the last meetup in River North, but attendance was poor. The last time we discussed a location, a northside location was preferred because most of the interested parties were in the near north suburbs, far north suburbs, or Wisconsin. Evanston (and specifically near Davis Street) was favorable because (a) good access to mass transit as well as Amtrak commuter service (b) decently good access to road transit. The meetup is intended to be a meeting of persons in the Chicago area who are interested in Wikipedia, and not specifically a meeting for people interested in editing Chicago-related topics. Kelly Martin (talk) 01:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scope

How strongly do people here feel about suburban topics? I live in the suburbs (Niles) and take my camera almost everywhere; as a result, I'm constantly getting new pictures of various things but mostly in the near north suburbs (Niles, Skokie, Evanston, etc.). I don't get into the city as often, and when I do I often can't stop to take pictures because it's so much harder to park in the city.

I will make an effort to photograph the COTW when I can (although I don't think I'll be able to make it down to Intelligentsia this week). Anyway, if anybody wants north suburban photos for north suburban topics, I'm game. Kelly Martin (talk) 18:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Suburban topics should hold seperate wikis of their own. The suburbs of Chicago are not part of Chicago, and from my personal experience, are totally different from the city itself in most respects. Solutus 01:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting that we recommend deleting the articles on the various suburbs that already exist and merging them into Chicago; that would be silly. Rather, I'm asking whether a suburban article is in scope for the collaboration of the week. Kelly Martin (talk) 01:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

That sounds cool, I'd definately support that. We have a really cool history, albeit unfortunate, of our suburban sprawl and how quickly its expanding and everything. Maybe we should look at making different independant articles such as one for all the north suburbs, one for the sound, one for the southwest, etc. Much like how we have the sides of the city laid out, detailing which neighborhoods belong to which side. Solutus 15:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps North Shore (Chicago) would be one to try. -- DS1953 ^talk 03:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Humanities Festival

Hi, Chicago Humanities Festival is up fordeletion. — goethean ॐ 03:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] City Boundaries Map

On the Chicago city boundaries map you have up (the one with the city drawn inside Cook County), it shows O'Hare Airport as being in Cook County. It's actually in DuPage County (the only part of the city that is). I'll see if I can find a map that accurately shows it but in the meantime it's misleading to have up. Lollipop09 23:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Not quite. Devon Avenue is the boundary between Cook and DuPage counties, and the part of the airport north of Devon is in Cook County [Elk Grove emigre]

[edit] Deletionist at large

Maybe some Chicagoans could help keep an eye on (and maybe help expand) the Balaban and Katz article which had to be recreated after being deleted by a trigger-happy admin without warning or discussion. I've expanded it a bit and added a few links, but I don't know if it will be enough to placate the deletionist (who I'm guessing is not from Chicago, or he wouldn't have assumed that B&K lack importance.) Whyaduck 05:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Institute of Design IIT

This article is now nominated for copyvio deletion.--Samuel Curtis^{Shinichian-Hirokian}-- _{TALK·CONTRIBS} 19:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Park Place Tower (Chicago)

Could someone from this project check and confirm the notability of this building? WjBscribe 18:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It's definately the tallest building in the area. I have a friend that lives there. They have nice condos. I don't know if it's particularlly notable or worth having an article. I don't know if any Chicago Cubs live there.--Twintone 19:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It is definitely the tallest building in Lakeview but apart from that, it has no real notability to deserve its own article. --Gerald Farinas 21:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration

Some of us at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places are working on a Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration. I thought that since he did so much work in the Chicago area, some people from this project would be interested. I'll copy/paste the nice invitation box: