Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Raise nineteenth-century Chicago one building at a time by investing resources, winning civic projects, and controlling the city’s wards.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Raising Chicago is an economic tile-placement game based on the engineering campaign that physically lifted the city above its muddy streets. Players represent competing firms that place tiles onto resource spaces connected to five public projects. Completing a project triggers an investment contest: the winner spends resources and stacks a tile beneath a building, permanently changing the city. Building positions, ward majorities, council demands, and the timing of contested investments create a tightly connected puzzle in which civic improvement and private ambition are inseparable.
