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Nostalgic for the pre-Mapquest world? Do your dogeared city guides and abused atlases sit proudly on your bookshelves? Have we got an event for you.
The citywide Festival of Maps kicks off tomorrow, and is a tribute to those simpler, flatter world guides we’d consult constantly before the internets helped us find the best non-highway crosstown routes quicker than you could say "Western Avenue." It’s the first fest of its kind, and is a collaboration of more than 30 Chicagoland cultural institutions, some we never knew existed.
The Google Map addicted may not remember or even comprehend a cartographer’s artistic abilities and political power. (Notice how the legend on Downtown Chicago maps always seems to swallow up Cabrini-Green...) Start your education at the Chicago History Museum’s “Mapping Chicago” exhibit, tracking the ever-expanding city grid with a nod to the Burnham Plan, the Columbian Exposition, and a certain Glenview-based map maker.
The festival continues into 2008. Its nifty website has more information and, yes, maps of events and participating institutions.
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Son,
Did you hear about that dude out east who stole rare/old maps from all over the east coast and resold them for millions of dollars? Most of them were just in libraries like at Haravrd and Yale-( where he went to school). You couldn;t take the books home, but you could just take them to a sitting room, which is what he did, untill one day the exacto knife feel out of his coat pocket. He even hit the NewBerry article. It was a pretty interesting article in the New Yorker about it. Actually I did get two old maps form The National Maritime Museum in London. They were not expensive, but pretty cool.