This interactive map shows some of the buildings used by Chicago's black periodicals, as well as the home addresses of prominent publishers and editors. It also highlights important cultural, religious and political landmarks, helping to situate black media architecture within the racialised geography of the 'Black Metropolis.'

Click on the icon at the top-left of the map to expand the different layers. Here you can add or remove layers to better assess the geographic spread of individual publications.

Red markers show sites relating to the Chicago Defender
Blue markers show sites relating to Johnson Publishing Company
Green markers show sites relating to other black periodicals in Chicago
Yellow markers show other black Chicagoan landmarks such as churches, social institutions and night clubs

SOURCES

Broad Ax
Chicago Bee
Chicago Crusader
Chicago Defender
Chicago Whip
Ebony
Half-Century Magazine
Jet​
Muhammad Speaks

- Baldwin, Davarian. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Detweiler, Frederick. The Negro Press in the United States. University of Chicago Press, 1922.
- Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Kenney, William. Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930. Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
- The Negro In Chicago, 1779-1929. Harold Washington Special Collections. Chicago Public Library.
- Reed, Christopher. The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. University of Illinois Press, 2011.