This is the page for the Chicago Collaboration of the Week. Every week, a Chicago related article that is in great need of improvement will be chosen by the community to be the focus of the combined improvement efforts of the editors of WikiProject Chicago and others who are interested in improving the coverage of the Chicago area on Wikipedia. Please nominate any articles that you feel are in need of drastic improvement. A list of potential candidates can be found in the open tasks section of the WikiProject Chicago Project Page. Please add any comments regarding the logistics and operation of this project on the Talk Page.
The objective of this page is to convert pages that are underdeveloped relative to the amount of public information available (with particular attention to redlinked and stub articles) into presentable pages that can not be significantly improved (on a content basis) with a reasonable amount of effort. It is unlikely that in one week any article will rise to the standards of a featured article. However, it should not be uncommon for an article to rise to the standard of good article after getting the attention of our membership.
On November 5, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Peter Bynoe, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
...that businessman Peter Bynoe oversaw the development of New Comiskey Park, keeping the Chicago White Sox from leaving the city? 12:33, 5 November 2007 - 19:42, 5 November 2007 (edited to which was instrumental in keeping at 13:41, 5 November 2007)
On October 21, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vi Daley, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
...that Chicago City CouncilaldermanVi Daley has proposed legislation that banks be forbidden to open within 600 feet (180m) of each other? 22:31, 21 October 2007 - 04:35, 22 October 2007
On October 9, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jon Burge, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On October 1, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article My Kind of Town, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On September 10, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rainbow/PUSH, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On September 4, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Patrick Nash, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
...that the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919? 23:10, 27 August 2007 - 06:03, 28 August 2007
On 31 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Marathon, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years? 23:25, 30 July 2007-11:33, 31 July 2007
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated city of Chicago? 06:12, 23 July 2007-13:20, 23 July 2007 ("city of" removed at 6:21)
On July 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arts Club of Chicago, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 18 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Crown Fountain, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
...that Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water? 15:36, 18 June 2007–00:12, 19 June 2007
On 15 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Landmark, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
...that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd WrightRobie House? 23:34, 15 April 2007–06:14, 16 April 2007
...the AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century? 23:49, 9 April 2007–05:56, 10 April 2007
On 5 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Theater, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
...that 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago? 21:48, 28 February 2007–05:06, 1 March 2007 (modified at 05:02)
For further detail please see Rules and Objectives.Before this separate page (with its own history) was created on August 31, 2007 this page kept its archives here.
Here you may place any article that is currently tagged as a {{Chicago-stub}} or that is a stub and has the {{ChicagoWikiProject}} tag on its talk page. Recall the meaning of a stub is an article where "an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial Web search or a few minutes in a reference library". You may also place any article that has been assessed as Class B or lower or clearly should be. However, preference is given to stubs (Ties will go to the shorter article). Redlinks are eligible and favored over stubs. In a good week we will choose a nominee that is WP:DYK eligible, find an interesting point and make enough improvement to meet the DYK criteria. Also sign your nomination using ~~~~ so that we can keep track of who nominated each nominee and when they nominated each nominee.
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