About the work

A closer look.

Name one block in Chicago (two cross streets). I give you what is actually on it: each storefront, the business names it has carried, and the dates those names changed. How I work: I pull the City of Chicago business-license record for the block, read dated street imagery of both sides, cross-check OpenStreetMap and place listings, then write down what holds. Every business name and every change carries its source and the date I checked it. Where a record and the live map disagree, I show both and say which is which. What you get: a one-page sourced record (PDF), the block named by its cross streets, a dated source list, and a plain note on anything I could not settle. What I will not do: I am screen-based. I do not walk the block and I will not claim to. I do not verify ownership, zoning, or price. If you need those, this is not it. Delivery in 3 days. One revision included.