The Landscape Change map is an in-progress map highlighting the many changes that U.S. officials orchestrated in lockstep with and following the removal of Native people from what is now known as Chicagoland. Because the creation of this map has required manually entering data from individual survey plats, it is an ongoing project that we will continue to update. For the time being, it reconstructs the waterways and marshlands that were destroyed by engineering projects, and shows historic forests and prairies. The current iteration of the map shows complete reconstructions of Cook and Lake counties, and partial reconstructions of major waterways in other surrounding counties. Like all aspects of the Indigenous Chicago project, this map is an ongoing initiative that we will continue to update.   

To view the map in a new page, click here.