Where can I bring my dog? How do I access that trail? Where can I go cross country skiing? Where can I have that big party? The Forest Preserves of Cook County in partnership with Smart Chicago has developed the…
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New Export Option for Spatial Open Data
In December, a new export option for spatial datasets became available on the data portals for Cook County, City of Chicago, and State of Illinois. Previously, datasets such as parcels, streets, address points, and boundaries could be downloaded as a KML,…
Updated Cook County Data: Annual Salaries
New Cook County salary data is now available that shows salary and position titles as of November 24, 2015. In order to maintain access to previous salary data updates this data has been posted in a new dataset available at https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/Finance-Administration/Comptroller-Annual-Salaries-2015-November-24/9tzu-m4zi…
Updated Cook County Data: Historical & Updated GIS Data
Over the past several weeks, the Cook County GIS Department has added updated taxing district boundary data to Cook County’s Open Data Portal. Datasets for the 2012 tax year versions of these boundaries were previously added to the portal. As part…
New Cook County Data: Fiscal Year 2016 Executive Budget Recommendation
On Wednesday, the Cook County Department of Budget and Management Services released the Executive Recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2016. As with previous years the Budget is available as a series of PDFs. As part of our work with Cook…
Cook County FY2016 Preliminary Budget Forecast Public Hearing
On July 30, Cook County hosted a public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2016 Preliminary Budget Forecast. 32 people spoke at the hearing, and two speakers spoke about Cook County Open Data. Demond Drummer, representing the Resident Association of Greater…
