A detailed street grid of Chicago from 1893 spreads across aged cream paper with fine brown lines mapping the city's neighborhoods and Lake Michigan's shoreline in soft blue. The composition balances the densely crosshatched urban streets on the left with the calm expanse of water on the right, creating a sense of the city's geographic relationship to the lake. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.