For the first lab assignments for Applications in Archaeology, we worked with data related to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, comparing the city just prior the fire and approximately 20 years later. The map below illustrates the boundaries of the city in both 1869 and 1890, along with the origin and extent of the fire, landmarks constructed prior to the fire, and landmarks constructed after the fire but before 1890. This allows us to see both the expansion of the city and the concentrated construction of new landmarks within the damaged area and its surrounding wards.
I didn't have enough time this week to make the map look as good as I would have liked (especially those labels--yikes, ArcMap is bad at automatically labeling!), but I think it turned out okay, albeit unimpressive. The data for this week was very interesting, even though the lab itself was mostly a review of things I've done before.
