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 phases 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.

This map shows data for a single year.

OUTDATED. See the current data at https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/7cve-jgbp -- Zoning district boundaries by type and classification.Chicago is divided into zoning districts that regulate land use activities across the city. Data is based on the Chicago Zoning Ordinance and Land Use Ordinance http://bit.ly/9eqawi. Zoning Types are defined in this ordinance. For additional information about business uses, review the License/Zoning Reference (LZR) Guide http://bit.ly/vvGzne, which is based on the Municipal Code and is intended to assist business owners in determining the proper zoning district and primary business license for specific business types. Related Applications: Zoning Map https://gisapps.cityofchicago.org/zoning/

Attendance boundaries for high schools in the Chicago Public Schools district for school year 2014-2015. Generally, all students in the applicable high school grades who live within one of these boundaries may attend the school. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth or ArcGIS, are required.

Ward boundaries in Chicago from May 2003 to May 2015, corresponding to the dates when a new City Council is sworn in, based on the immediately preceding elections. Neither this description nor the dataset should be relied upon in situations where legal precision is required. The data can be viewed on the Chicago Data Portal with a web browser. However, to view or use the files outside of a web browser, you will need to use compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS (shapefile) or Google Earth (KML or KMZ), is required.

Locations of educational units in the Chicago Public School District for school year 2017-2018. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth, are required.

CTA's statutory service area is defined in the
Metropolitan Transit Authority Act of 1945 (70 ILCS 3605)
as being, "All territory in the County of Cook, State of Illinois,
lying east of the east line of Range Eleven, East of the Third
Prinicipal Meridian of the United States Government Survey..."

Street sweeping zones by Ward and Ward Section Number. For the corresponding schedule, see https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/bbt9-ihrm.

For more information about the City's Street Sweeping program, go to https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/streets/provdrs/streets_san/svcs/street_sweeping2020.html.

​​​​​This dataset is in a forma​​t for spatial datasets that is inherently tabular but allows for a map as a derived view. Please click the indicated link below for such a map.

To export the data in either tabular or geographic format, please use the Export button on this dataset.

Map of 2021 street sweeping zones by Ward and Ward Section Number.

Contains a list of grocery stores which was used by the city to calculate the estimates of Chicagoans living in food deserts in 2011. Data in this file can be cross-referenced with the city's business license data (http://bit.ly/sMFZdN).

Census tract boundaries in Chicago. The data can be viewed on the Chicago Data Portal with a web browser. However, to view or use the files outside of a web browser, you will need to use compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS (shapefile) or Google Earth (KML or KMZ), is required.

City of Chicago's Workforce Center locations

Map of Chicago Energy Benchmarking Covered Buildings.

Map of the ward precinct boundaries in Chicago from
November 2022 onward.

The City of Chicago launched the Micro-Market Recovery Program (MMRP), a coordinated effort among the City, not-for-profit intermediaries, and non-profit and for-profit capital sources to improve conditions, strengthen property values, and create environments supportive of private investment in targeted markets throughout the city. The goal of MMRP is to improve conditions, strengthen property values, and create environments supportive of private investment in targeted areas by strategically deploying public and private capital and other tools and resources in well-defined micro-markets. This MMRP Case dataset contains all Department of Buildings (DOB) Cases that have occured at properties falling within any MMRP Zone. Permits, Cases and Violations can be linked to the MMRP Geographies dataset using ADDRKEY or ADDRGRPKEY. To link Violations and Inspections to their Permits and Cases use Violation PERMITORCASEKEY to link to Permits APKEY_PERMIT and Cases APKEY_CASE. For more information on the MMRP program, please see http://www.regionalhopi.org/content/city-chicago-micro-market-recovery-program-overview.

The safe passages program has been implemented to increase children’s safety as they come and go each day. The data can be viewed on the Chicago Data Portal with a web browser. However, to view or use the files outside of a web browser, you will need to use compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS (shapefile) or Google Earth (KML or KMZ), is required.

Map of Warming Centers

Unexpired 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.

List of Chicago Department of Public Health free flu clinics offered throughout the city. For more information about the flu, go to http://bit.ly/9uNhqG.

Street sweeping zones by Ward and Ward Section Number. For the corresponding schedule, see https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/k737-xg34.

For more information about the City's Street Sweeping program, go to http://bit.ly/H2PHUP.

The data can be viewed on the Chicago Data Portal with a web browser. However, to view or use the files outside of a web browser, you will need to use compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS (shapefile) or Google Earth (KML or KMZ).

The City of Chicago launched the Micro-Market Recovery Program (MMRP), a coordinated effort among the City, not-for-profit intermediaries, and non-profit and for-profit capital sources to improve conditions, strengthen property values, and create environments supportive of private investment in targeted markets throughout the city. The goal of MMRP is to improve conditions, strengthen property values, and create environments supportive of private investment in targeted areas by strategically deploying public and private capital and other tools and resources in well-defined micro-markets. This address dataset contains additional geographies, such as Fire and Police Districts, Census Tract and TIF Zones, that can be linked to MMRP Permit, Case and Violation data using the ADDRKEY or ADDRGRPKEY.

Map of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas.

Map of 2022 street sweeping zones by Ward and Ward Section Number.

Locations of educational units in the Chicago Public School District for school year 2015-2016. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth, are required.

This is a list of all early learning programs funded by the City of Chicago. For more information, please see http://chicagoearlylearning.org.

Parks managed by the Chicago Park District. Dataset includes park facilities and features information. For Shapefiles, go to https://data.cityofchicago.org/Parks-Recreation/Parks-Shapefiles/5msb-wbxn. For KML files, go to https://data.cityofchicago.org/Parks-Recreation/Parks-KML/hmfy-xsta.