FOIA requests received by Streets and Sanitation as of May 1, 2010

All restaurants and food stores selling perishable items are required to apply for a Retail Food License (RFL). This metric tracks the average number of days the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) takes to issue RFLs. The target response time for processing is within 15 days.

Hospitals in Chicago. To view or use these files, compression software, like WinZip, and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required. The .dbf file may also be opened in Excel, Access or other database programs.

This dataset shows approximate, average, weekday boardings by bus stop from the month of October 2012.

FOIA requests received by 311 as of May 1, 2010

Bike routes in Chicago. To view or use these files outside of a web brower, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

The Annual Appropriation Ordinance is the final City operating budget as approved by the City Council. It reflects the City’s operating budget at the beginning of the fiscal year on January 1. This dataset details the budgeted expenditures in the Ordinance and identifies them by department, appropriation account, and funding type: Local, Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), and other Grants. “Local” funds refer to those line items that are balanced with locally generated revenue sources, including but not limited to the Corporate Fund, Water Fund, Midway and O’Hare Airport funds, Vehicle Tax Fund, Library Fund and General Obligation Bond funds. Owner: Budget and Management. Frequency: Data is updated annually. For more information about the budget process, visit the Budget Documents page: http://j.mp/lPotWf.

Records involving any degree of street closure from the underlying dataset: Applications to the Chicago Department of Transportation for permits under its jurisdiction, which typically are permits to block or otherwise affect public streets in some way. Because all permits start as applications, this dataset also serves as a list of permits granted. See more information about CDOT permits at http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/construction_information/svcs/online-permit-portal.html.

This information is derived from payments made to City of Chicago employees from January 1 of the previous calendar year to the present. Payments are initiated by City Departments and issued by the Department of Finance. Descriptions of each attribute follow:

- Voucher Number: This is a unique number assigned to each payment and is used for identifying that particular payment.

- Amount: This is the dollar amount of the payment made.

- Payment Date: This is the date payment was issued.

- Vendor Name: This is the name of the person or entity to which payment was made.

- Description: This is an optional field that indicates the reason payment was made.

FOIA requests received by the Office of the Mayor as of May 1, 2010

City boundary of Chicago in shapefile format. This dataset has been superseded by https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/ewy2-6yfk, which is in a more flexible format that still allows shapefile downloads. Please use that dataset instead.

Records from the Crimes - 2001 to Present dataset for the indicated year.

Please see the description section of the full dataset for further information about the data.

FOIA requests received by Transportation as of May 1, 2010

List of schools by name, address, type and grades. Note some facilities house multiple schools.

This dataset contains the historical estimated congestion for 1270 traffic segments, in selected time periods from August 2011 to May 2018. Newer records are in https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/sxs8-h27x. The most recent estimates for each segment are in https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/n4j6-wkkf.

The Chicago Traffic Tracker estimates traffic congestion on Chicago’s arterial streets (non-freeway streets) in real-time by continuously monitoring and analyzing GPS traces received from Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) buses. Two types of congestion estimates are produced every 10 minutes: 1) by Traffic Segments and 2) by Traffic Regions or Zones. Congestion estimates by traffic segments gives observed speed typically for one-half mile of a street in one direction of traffic. Traffic Segment level congestion is available for about 300 miles of principal arterials. Congestion by Traffic Region gives the average traffic condition for all arterial street segments within a region. A traffic region is comprised of two or three community areas with comparable traffic patterns. 29 regions are created to cover the entire city (except O’Hare airport area). There is much volatility in traffic segment speed. However, the congestion estimates for the traffic regions remain consistent for a relatively longer period. Most volatility in arterial speed comes from the very nature of the arterials themselves. Due to a myriad of factors, including but not limited to frequent intersections, traffic signals, transit movements, availability of alternative routes, crashes, short length of the segments, etc. Speed on individual arterial segments can fluctuate from heavily congested to no congestion and back in a few minutes. The segment speed and traffic region congestion estimates together may give a better understanding of the actual traffic conditions. Current estimates of traffic congestion by region are available at http://bit.ly/Vz3rIh.

FOIA requests received by Business Affairs and Consumer Protection as of May 1, 2010

Permits issued by the Department of Environment (DOE) from January 1993 to December 31, 2011 and by the Department of Public Health (CDPH) since January 1, 2012. This dataset also includes tank permits issued by CDPH on behalf of the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshall (OSFM). On January 1, 2012, the DOE was disbanded and all its inspection, permitting, and enforcement authorities were transferred to the CDPH.
Data fields requiring description are detailed below.
APPLICATION ID: This is the unique id of the issued permit. Permits from the historic DOE are prefixed with “DOE.” Permits issued by CDPH are prefixed with “ENV_”
APPLICATION NAME: This is the name of the site that is being permitted. This is usually the company/owner name, address, or building name.
MAPPED LOCATION: Contains latitude/longitude coordinates of the site as determined through the Chicago Open Data Portal’s geocoding engine. In instances where the facility address is a range, the lower number (the value in the “Street Number From” column) is used for geocoding. For example, for the range address 1000-1005 S Wabash Ave, the Mapped Location would be the coordinates for 1000 S Wabash Ave.
APPLICATION TYPE:
"ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANK" Permits to install or remove an Above Ground Storage Tank (AST) for dispensing and non-dispensing with a volume greater than 110 gallons. For more information go to https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_an_abovegroundstoragepermit.html.
"UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK" Permits to install, upgrade, repair, remove, abandon a UST or install an interior lining or Stage II vapor recovery systems in a UST. For more information go to https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_an_undergroundstoragetankpermit.html.
“AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PERMIT” Permits to install, operate, erect, construct, reconstruct, alter or add a piece of process equipment, process area, or air pollution control equipment and for sandblasting, grinding or chemical washing of any building, facility, statue or other architectural surface. This also includes annual certificate of operation (COO) for regulated process equipment, process area, or air pollution control equipment as defined in 11-4-610 of the Municipal Code. For more information go tohttps://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_an_airqualitypermit.html.
“RECYCLING FACILITY” Permits for recycling facilities including but not limited to junkyards, scrap metal, vehicle, vehicle parts, clean construction and demolition debris, and composting facilities. For more information go to https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_a_recyclingfacilitypermit.html.
“WASTE HANDLING FACILITY” Permits for solid waste transfer stations, liquid waste facilities, and permanent rock crushing facilities. For more information, refer to Chapter 11-4 Article IX and Article XIV of the Municipal Code at https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_a_landfillandorliquidwastefacilitypermit.html
“TEMPORARY ROCK CRUSHING” Permits to temporarily process concrete debris at the construction or demolition site. For more information go to https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/healthy_communities/svcs/apply_for_a_rockcrushingpermit.html.
APPLICATION SUBTYPE: The specific work type being permitted as applicable.
STATUS: The current status of the permit (e.g. Open, Closed, Stop Work, etc.).
ISSUE/ENTRY DATE: For historic DOE records, this date is the issue date of the permit. For CDPH records, this is either the date the permit was issued, or the date the permit application was entered into the database.
EXPIRATION DATE: This is the permit expiration date. Not all permits may have an expiration date. Some permits are renewed annually or every three years. If the applicant does not renew, the

Data set contains all 311 calls for open and vacant buildings reported to the City of Chicago since January 1, 2010. The information is updated daily with the previous day's calls added to the records. The data set provides the date of the 311 service request and the unique Service Request # attached to each request. For each request, the following information (as reported by the 311 caller) is available: address location of building; whether building is vacant or occupied; whether the building is open or boarded; entry point if building is open; whether non-residents are occupying or using the building, if the building appears dangerous or hazardous and if the building is vacant due to a fire.

FOIA requests received by the Office of Emergency Management and Communications as of May 1, 2010

A list of grocery stores in Chicago and last known status (open or closed). To find locations of a specific chain, use the Store Name filter with CONTAINS or STARTS WITH.

FOIA requests received by the Chicago Police Board as of May 1, 2010

Street sweeping schedule by Ward and Ward section number. To find your Ward section, visit https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/qixn-wjxu. For more information about the City's Street Sweeping program, go to http://bit.ly/H2PHUP.

Point data representing location of CTA Rail Station. To view or use these files, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS is required. Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Illinois_East_FIPS_1201_Feet

Records from the Crimes - 2001 to Present dataset for the indicated year.

Please see the description section of the full dataset for further information about the data.

The Chicago Building Energy Use Benchmarking Ordinance calls on existing municipal, commercial, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet to track whole-building energy use, report to the City annually, and verify data accuracy every three years. The law, which was phased in from 2014-2017, covers less than 1% of Chicago’s buildings, which account for approximately 20% of total energy used by all buildings. For more details, including ordinance text, rules and regulations, and timing, please visit www.CityofChicago.org/EnergyBenchmarking

The ordinance authorizes the City to share property-specific information with the public, beginning with the second year in which a building is required to comply.

The dataset represents self-reported and publicly-available property information by calendar year. Currently, the data includes calendar year 2014 information for 243 properties, calendar year 2015 information for over 1,500 properties, calendar year 2016 information for over 2,700 properties, and calendar year 2017 information for almost 2,800 properties.

The "Data Year" column and filtered views under "More Views" can be used to isolate specific years.