Checklists for the lakefront, the river and the neighborhoods beyond.
The deadlines that start the day you move in, and the ones nobody tells you about.
Register your car in Illinois — 30 days · Buy a Chicago city vehicle sticker — 30 days · Add residential zone parking if your street has it · Trade your driver's licence for an Illinois one — 90 days and 9 more
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Each story is one of the lists below, written up — with a tick box on every place that works before you sign in.
Guide · 10 places · 3 min
Ten landmarks, grouped so you can walk between them, with the two that need a train saved for last.
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The list · 10 places · 3 min
Deep dish, Italian beef, a hot dog from a drive-in and two rooms you book weeks ahead. A list you can work through in a long weekend.
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Guide · 8 places · 3 min
Eight cafés, one long day, and a route you can actually walk. Tick them off as you go.
MyCheck · tick it as you read
Every place is checked against its own website before it runs. Publish your own and your name rides on it.
Everything here is researched and published by MyCheck so far — 3 stories and 5 lists. Yours could be the first with someone else’s name on it.
Every part of the city with places on a list.
What to sort out when you arrive: the licence, the plates, the sticker, the parking rules and the cards that make a city usable. Every step links to the official page that sets the rule, and says when it was last checked.
Ten things the Chicago rental ordinance entitles a tenant to, with the deadlines that bind the landlord and the penalties when they are missed.
Thirteen things to sort out after you move to Chicago, in deadline order, each linking to the official page that sets the rule.
Where to eat, from the dishes a city is known for to the long-running institutions that serve them. Lists are grouped by cuisine or occasion so each one can be worked through on its own.
Cafés and roasters worth a detour. Each list runs neighborhood by neighborhood so it can be walked in sections rather than criss-crossing the city.
Landmarks, museums, parks and trails. These are the lists to start with on a first visit, and the free ones are marked so a day out does not have to cost anything.
Save the places you want to try and check them off as you go.
Open My ChecklistsEvery list is checked against the places’ own websites before it runs, and says the date it was checked. All of Chicago · Every city in the United States · Latest story
