Data Portals/Chicago Data Portal

Chicago Data Portal

The City of Chicago's open data portal, a pioneering municipal program with extensive geospatial and operational datasets.

The Chicago Data Portal is the City of Chicago's open data platform, an early and influential municipal open data program. It publishes operational and geographic data from city departments on a Socrata system.

For mapping it offers boundaries (community areas, wards, census tracts), building footprints, transportation, crime, 311 requests, and many service datasets, exportable as GeoJSON and Shapefile with full APIs. It is the authoritative source for Chicago city data.

Frequently Asked Questions

Community areas, wards, census tracts, building footprints, streets, transit, and many service-location datasets for Chicago.

Yes. The Socrata-based portal provides APIs for every dataset, with GeoJSON export for spatial data.

Yes. The City of Chicago publishes the data for free public use.

Details

AgencyCity of Chicago
LevelCity
RegionNorth America
CoverageChicago, United States
LicenseOpen (free use)
Formats
CSVGeoJSONShapefileAPI
Update FrequencyContinuous
Categories
United StatesCityOpen Data
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