This project examines the historical construction of racial and spatial language in Chicago’s South Side in the months surrounding the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. This significant event occurred during a period of social and political transformation in Chicago, including population growth during the Great Migration, labor competition, and the return of Black veterans. By comparing how major publications such as The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Defender, and the Chicago Daily News informed the public about the Chicago Race Riot, this study provides a spatial understanding of how newspapers represented neighborhoods, racial identity, and social disruption during the Chicago Race Riot. This investigative process includes a coding procedure that records descriptive language, geographic concentration, racial references, and spatial mapping. These categories allow newspaper coverage to be analyzed as a form of urban geography, particularly within a medium that played a central role in informing local communities at the time. Anticipated findings include how newspaper discourse transformed neighborhood boundaries into racialized spaces and how black movement was understood through various narratives. The study also seeks to reveal underlying thought patterns within mainstream publications. The circulation of narratives about the Chicago Race Riot compels us to consider the effects of language used by various publications and how it may have influenced or reinforced the social and spatial contours of American society.