Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Illinois

message: I removed Thomson & Taylor Spice Company Building from the Chicago entries; I can't find it in the official site's listings. MisfitToys 23:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Revisions

message: I almost thought Metra was reusing this station, but I was wrong. Anyway, here are two link for anybody looking to do an article on the former station (http://www.wilmette.com/whpc/details/1139wilmette.htm)(http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IL/Cook/state2.html). Good luck. ---- DanTD 01:27, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago & Northwestern Passenger Depot (Wilmette, Illinois) 

message: The neighborhood divisions in this list's Chicago section are indecipherable to anyone not from Chicago. How is anyone supposed to update this list? IvoShandor 00:08, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No answer, so I am removing them under the "stupid as hell" clause. IvoShandor 23:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Too much work, they will not be on the new version of this list being worked on in user space by the Illinois project. If anyone is unconvinced, bring in some outside editors and you shall see just how useless and counter-productive the neighborhood areas are. I myself couldn't update the list because I am unfamiliar with the neighborhoods. This stinks of WP:OWN. IvoShandor 23:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know these "neighborhoods" either, and really, anyone outside of Chicago won't either, nor will they care. To me it is the same as including all the subdivisions that are hooked up to Byron if there are historical places in them, or Rockford for that matter. When they click on the article, then you can have the neighborhood listed in there, same as if it was a township.--Kranar drogin 23:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, being unfamiliar with the neighborhoods (all of which have their own articles) is not really different than being unfamiliar with a small town where a site is located. Subdividing by neighborhood is more helpful than one long list with hundreds of entries. The Manhattan listings recognize the need to subdivide the massive list geographically within the city; Chicago's neighborhoods, having formally defined boundaries, make this easier. Considering that only three Chicago sites have been added in the last several months, isn't this something of an overreaction? MisfitToys (talk) 01:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicago sections

message: Hey, i believe that List of Registered Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois/Temp has been developed to fully include all the information (displayed and hidden in wikilinks) that is in the current list, but now in table form and with additional info and with room to grow.  I think it is better, although the any comments / suggestions / corrections would be appreciated.
One thing i noticed is that the current version shows some sites in more than one neighborhood, such as the Midway, which runs through 3 of the defined neighborhoods.  The current version's organizational format, by town, was indeed nice and the whole article was nice that way.  However, i do think the tabular format organized alphabetically by landmark name is better and it is worth switching over.
Depending upon if there is any big discussion, I plan to blank the current version and copy the Temp version into its space, fairly soon.  That will preserve the edit history of the current version, and will show all the work done in the Temp space as one big edit.  I plan to spin off the Chicago section into a separate article soon.  I was planning to spin off the Evanston section also, but it is almost all red-links, so i may merge it back into the main table of all the other non-Chicago NRHPs.  Thanks! doncram (talk) 19:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Have implemented the big switchover from list to sortable table.  What i haven't done is really check the table properly to make sure it includes every RHP that was in the previous list, and otherwise captures all the neighborhood and other info in the previous list.  Cross-checking is needed.  But i think the table is basically pretty good, and i would rather it was in place and allowing pics and descriptions to be added. doncram (talk) 11:07, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big switch to table form pending...