Locations of educational units in the Chicago Public School District for school year 2016-2017. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth or ArcGIS, are required.

Routes located in Cook County. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

Fishing lakes in Cook County with contours. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

Trails within the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

Cook County facilities. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

Forest Preserve District of Cook County boundaries. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

There are nine major classes of liquor licenses in the City of Chicago, the most common being Tavern, Package Goods and Incidental - Consumption on Premises. These categories were established to help the City identify and regulate the various types of establishments serving alcoholic beverages. They are described at the following link: http://bit.ly/P0Gn4c. The Chicago City Council has passed a series of ordinances restricting the issuance of liquor licenses in various locations throughout the City in sections 4-60-022 and 4-60-023 of the Municipal Code. In general, consumption on premises liquor licenses are affected by the 022 moratorium and Package Goods are affected by the 023 moratorium. However, moratoriums can be complicated, so determining whether or not a moratorium applies to a specific license application is not always straightforward. Users of the data should contact the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection if they have any questions. These GIS layers show the locations of moratoriums passed by the City Council. It is updated monthly if any restrictions have been added or deleted. Columns are as follows: • CODE refers to the specific ordinance passed by City County. If there are more than one, they are connected by an underscore. They are in the format ww.nnn where ww is the ward number and nnn is a sequential number. • ST_SDE refers to which side of the street the ordinance refers to. • CREADATE is the date that the ordinance was input into the digital system, usually within a week after passed by City Council. Dates before 2003 do not relect the actual date passed.

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KML file of Metra Stations. To view or use these files, special GIS software such as Google Earth is required. To download, right-click the "Download" link above and choose "Save link as."

Police beat boundaries in Chicago which are effective as of December 19, 2012. 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.

Habitat Sites are natural areas that support wildlilfe on both public and privately owned land. Approximately 3,800 of the 146,240 acres within the city limits serve as habitat sites. Among the 97 individual habitat sites identified in 2004 using mapping tools, aerial imagery, site-visits, and previous inventory studies, most are located along the Chicago River and on the shorelines of Lake Michigan and Lake Calumet natural areas that support wildlife.

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Police beats in Chicago. To view or use this KMZ file, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth, are required. To download this file, right-click the "Download" link above and choose "Save link as."

Attendance boundaries for high schools in the Chicago Public Schools district for school year 2015-2016. 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.

Special Service Areas (SSA) boundaries in Chicago. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required. The Special Service Area program is a mechanism used to fund expanded services and programs through a localized property tax levy within contiguous industrial, commercial and residential areas. The enhanced services and programs are in addition to services and programs currently provided through the city. SSA-funded projects could include, but are not limited to, security services, area marketing and advertising assistance, promotional activities such as parades and festivals, or any variety of small scale capital improvements that could be supported through a modest property tax levy

This dataset includes buildings and districts in Chicago which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or designated as National Historic Landmarks (NHL).

The NRHP is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation; NHLs are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States.

The NRHP and NHL programs are federally-established and are administered by the National Park Service (www.nps/gov/nr) and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA, www.illinoishistory.gov/). This dataset is provided by the City of Chicago based on NRHP and NHL nominations provided by IHPA.

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KML files of police districts in Chicago. To view or use these files, special GIS software such as Google Earth is required.

Chicago Public Schools, in partnership with parents, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and City of Chicago, has expanded the District's successful Safe Passage Program to provide safe routes to and from school every day for your child. This map presents the Safe Passage Routes specifically designed for designated schools during the 2015-2016 school year. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software, such as 7-Zip, and special GIS software, such as Google Earth or ArcGIS, are required.

The Chicago Historic Resources Survey (CHRS), completed in 1995, was a decade-long research effort by the City of Chicago to analyze the historic and architectural importance of all buildings, objects, structures, and sites constructed in the city prior to 1940. During 12 years of field work and follow-up research that started in 1983, CHRS surveyors identified approximately 9,900 properties which were considered to have some historic or architectural importance.
Please note that this CHRS dataset is limited and does not include the entire survey:

1. A color-coded ranking system was used to identify historic and architectural significance relative to age, degree of external physical integrity, and level of possible significance. This dataset only includes buildings identified with the two highest color codes: "Red" and "Orange." Buildings and structures coded "Red" or "Orange" (unless designated as a Chicago Landmark or located within a Chicago Landmark District) are subject to the City of Chicago’s Demolition-Delay Ordinance (link to: http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/supp_info/demolition_delay.html), adopted by City Council in 2003.

2. Only buildings are included in this dataset; structures and objects such as bridges, park structures, monuments and mausoleums, generally are not represented. Likewise, garages, coach houses, and other secondary structures associated with a building may not be consistently depicted or color-coded. If an “Orange”- or “Red”-rated building was demolished after 2008, it may still appear in the map. The CHRS occasionally rated only part of a building or part of a group of joined buildings as “Orange” or “Red;” however the entire building or group of joined buildings may be incorrectly identified as “Orange” or “Red.”

Additional information about the CHRS is available at www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/ or by contacting the Historic Preservation Division at (312) 744-3200.

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KML file of Forest Preserve District of Cook County boundaries. To view or use these files, special GIS software such as Google Earth is required

OUTDATED, HISTORICAL VERSION -- Point data representing bus garage and facilities maintenance locations. To view or use these files, special GIS software, such as Google Earth, is required.

Street sweeping zones by Ward and Ward Section Number. For the corresponding schedule, see https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/x2vd-qke7.

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).

KML files of railroads in Chicago. To view or use these files, special GIS software such Google Earth is required.

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.

OUTDATED, HISTORICAL VERSION -- Point data representing CTA park and ride locations. Details include number of spaces, cost, and rail station. To view or use these files, special GIS software, such as Google Earth, is required.

Curb lines for the city of Chicago. Curb lines mark the points where curbs meet the edge of the street pavement. To view or use these files, special GIS software such as Google Earth is required. To download, right-click the "Download" link above and choose "Save link as." This is a KMZ zipped file, and therefore upzipping software, such as 7-Zip, is required to convert to KML.