Over the past year, Cook County, Illinois, lost more residents than other other county in the United States , according to new Census figures. It’s the first time Cook has lost population since...
Building Up and Tearing Down: Even as Demand Grows, some Chicago Neighborhoods Don’t | WBEZ : This week we looked at why some North Side neighborhoods have declining or stagnant population ga...
Illinois is one of the worst states in the country when it comes to releasing and updating public data, according to a new study of state data holdings. U.S. Open Data, a nonprofit working to ma...
Tuesday the city of Chicago released its latest open data tool, which officials hope will make it easier to find and make sense of city information. Called OpenGrid , the platform aggregates muc...
Increases in children have accounted for all of the populations gains in Lakeview and Lincoln Park since 2000, and nearly 60 percent for North Center. While many may think of Chicago’s Lakevi...
Construction in Chicago has made a comeback over the past few years . According to city data, since the bottom of the recession the city has seen a turnaround with more permits issued for new con...
Section 8 voucher holders face blatant discrimination on Craigslist : Today we released a report looking at housing discrimination on Craigslist. To do the story we analyzed a month’s worth o...
Chicago to track an 'Array of Things' to improve livability
Watching the final projects from this summer’s class of Data Science for Social Good fellows, one theme became apparent. Here are the goals from half of the dozen projects: Predicting adverse...
In May the White House launched its Police Data Initiative , a program looking to help departments release more data and also use that information to improve how they do things. Over at WBEZ.org...
A map produced by a Cartogrphatron for the 1959 Chicago Area transportation Study Today, plotting thousands of points on a map isn’t the hardest thing to pull off. With the right tools, journ...
Chicagoans love to cut the city into neighborhoods a million different ways. Sociologists have their 77 community areas, aldermen 50 wards, and realtors can tell you all about more than 200 unoff...
There are more than 800 city blocks in Chicago where the state of Illinois will spend more than $1 million incarcerating the people who live there, according to a new project from Adler Universit...
Civic Engagement Toolkit for Local Election Officials : Cook County — specifically Clerk David Orr and Director of Elections Noah Praetz — are part of a team that won a Knight News Challeng...
New analytics program tries to predict where foodborne problems will occur
Behind CPS graduation rates, a system of musical chairs : > WBEZ and Catalyst Chicago bring a first-ever analysis of graduation > rates for every public high school in the ci...
The Sunlight Foundation wants to make election data open and available : > Chicago’s run-off election is just weeks away. What if there were > an app to tell you how long y...
What does Homan Square say about Chicago’s open data? : If you go to the city’s data portal, you’ll find a database of more than 5 million crimes reported in the city since 2001 . It’s ...
Last week Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wasn’t able to get the 50 percent plus one vote he needed to avoid a runoff in Chicago’s mayoral election, the first time that’s happened since the city...
There has been a lot of great stuff today using the results from Tuesday’s Chicago mayoral election. There’s also been a few discussions over where to get data and especially updated pr...