June 29, 2009

Chicago : Woodstock Institute Foreclosure Data

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http://www.woodstockinst.org/

Woodstock Institute is a nonprofit organization and a strong advocate of housing issues in Chicago. The organization has been collecting foreclosure data in the Chicago metropolitan area. The foreclosure data is now accessible through the Woodstock Institute’s website and also through Everyblock Chicago website (http://chicago.everyblock.com/foreclosures/).

The NU Library owns the Woodstock’s Chicago Area Community Lending Fact Book data on CD (1999-2004, tract level.)

[Image on the left: Foreclosure rates per 10,000 mortgageable properties in 2007 - click on the image to enlarge.]

 

April 13, 2009

Chicago : Community Areas and Tracts Crosswalk / Relationship file

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http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/regional/ChicagoCommunityAreas_Tracts_Relate.csv

Since a couple of people have asked – I created a crosswalk table (comma delimited) showing the relationship between Chicago community areas (Chicago’s defact & statistical neighborhoods) and the Census tracts.

 

November 30, 2008

Chicago : City of Chicago, GIS Data

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http://www.cityofchicago.org/gis

City of Chicago GIS dataset, printable maps and interactive maps are available from this site. To access GIS data files, click on “GIS Data” or select categorized datasets.

Note: Come back often to this site to get the latest data – the City of Chicago GIS irregularly updates data files – and you cannot tell which files were updated until you download data and compare!  For example, well sought after geocodable Chicago streets shapefiles, TRANSPORTATION_DSLV_1.zip, are now available from the site. Still, no metadata comes with the files..

Datasets available from the site area are categorized into the following groups:

  • Base data
  • Boundary data
  • Incentive programs
  • Points of interest
  • Transportation Data