In May, Cook County released data on businesses registered with Cook County Department of Revenue for eight tax types. A new tax type has been added covering Wholesale Tobacco Dealers. As with the other tax types this registered business data…
Two new Cook County GIS Open Datasets provide information on the bodies of water in Cook County: Lakes and Rivers shows the location and shape of flowing water features greater than five feet in width and major standing water bodies…
The Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways has jurisdictional authority of over 557 miles of highways. The Cook County Highway Jurisdiction dataset contains these roads and through the “MAINT” attribute shows which ones are maintained by the department. This…
On April 20, I attended the Illinois GIS Association Regional Meeting at the DePaul Center in Chicago. ILGISA President Andrew Vitale (Sr. GIS Coordinator, Village of Niles) kicked off the day by giving an overview of ILGISA. ILGISA is a statewide organization…
The Cook County Department of Revenue maintains lists of registered businesses for a variety of tax types. They wanted to be able to share these lists on the web pages for each tax type. This became a great opportunity to…
On April 30, 2015 the dataset FY2014 Appropriations And Expenditures with FY2015 Adopted Appropriation was added to the Open Data Portal. Cook County’s Annual Appropriation Bill Resolution requires that the Final Appropriation Trial Balance be posted as Open Data on the…
