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stevevance / bucktown.geojson
Created January 24, 2019 02:25
Planned Development and New Construction Permits in Bucktown
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stevevance / custom-logan-square-mb-boundary.geojson
Last active January 24, 2019 02:11
Planned Developments and New Construction permits in Logan Square
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stevevance / m_planned_developments_mina_bloom.csv
Last active January 21, 2019 22:00
Map of new construction and Planned Developments in seven wards: 1, 2, 26, 27, 31, 32, 35
zone_class alder pd_name
PD 1031 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 389 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 888 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 1291 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 1303 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 1398 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 227 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 1375 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
PD 354 2nd Ward, Alder Brian Hopkins
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stevevance / m_coach_houses_chicago_123018.geojson
Created December 30, 2018 20:31
Suspected coach houses in Chicago as of December 30, 2018
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stevevance / 1700nwesternzoningchangescript.md
Last active October 22, 2018 01:28
support zoning change to allow 60 apartments at 1700 N Western Ave

I am calling to indicate my support for the zoning change at 1700 N Western Avenue. As you know, it's currently a used car dealer and the owner wants to build a 60 unit apartment building. This is a superior use of the land and due to the CTA's past, present, and forthcoming service and infrastructure changes to increase reliability and capacity on the Blue Line, the additional neighbors will have an unmeasurable effect on the crowding on the Blue Line.

The CTA added morning and afternoon capacity two weeks ago and is working on a project to add even more capacity within the next two years. The main result on denying new housing from being built in our ward would mean sustained high rents in the vicinity or, worse, incre

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stevevance / getjson.js
Created August 22, 2018 04:46
Sample JavaScript code to get an API that returns JSON
function getAnApi(route, stop_id) {
var url = "https://website.domain/api/endpoint?";
var jqxhr = $.getJSON(url, {
// these are URL parameters
route: route,
stop_id: stop_id
})
.done(function(data) {
// all of the JSON response is now in a variable called "data"
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stevevance / holc descriptions text mining.csv
Created May 23, 2018 15:56
Home Owners' Loan Corporation "redlining" maps descriptions for Cook County neighborhoods
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"holc_id","holc_grade","narrative"
"C76","C","This is an area of heterogeneous development almost impossible to classify because of complete lack of uniformity of structures, not only in style, but in point of general desirability. Improvements vary from good apartments to old, obsolete residences, from unfurnished kitchenette apartments to semi-high class furnished apartments, from rooming houses to apartment hotels. Location convenient to transportation; shopping and amusement centers, and beaches are its greatest assets. Ground value is the price tag on the residential property with the trend toward larger apartments of six-family and up. The future of this area is rather uncertain, but it is doubtful that it will reverse its present down trend."
"B35","B","This neighborhood is about 10 per cent built, with the bulk of structures centered around Oakton Park. All streets are paved and it appears that future development will be similar in character to that which is already here. Shopping centers are availabl
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stevevance / bike_route.geojson
Last active April 24, 2018 15:22
A bike route given to a group of Dutch tourists.
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stevevance / README.MD
Last active April 17, 2018 19:37
Police issued a lot of spurious tickets in Chicago neighborhoods with higher populations of low-income and people of color.

I downloaded the CSV from Freddy Martinez. See all the data, and the FOIA request, on their repo. This data dump should show the same data the Chicago Tribune used in its analysis of where Chicago police officers issue tickets to people bicycling.

The CSV started with 15,971 total records.

I performed the following corrections of the data:

  • Removed 71 records on Unknown street
  • Coalesced all records on KING DR to use the same spelling
  • Removed the following ambiguous ones (sorry, I should have recorded the unique record ID along with these):
    • 850 67TH
    • 2050 71 STREET
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stevevance / IL_state_owned_land_01_30_2018.tsv
Created February 9, 2018 00:22
Outcome of a FOIA request for all Illinois state-owned land (this is a list of addresses, some of which are not locatable because they represent huge unaddressed parks and other areas). Obtained by Sam S.
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AgencyCertifying Site Name Physical street address City/Town County State Zip code
Agriculture Belleville-Henry White Farm 4747 Centerville Rd. Millstadt St. Clair IL 62260
Agriculture Duquoin State Fairgrounds 655 EXECUTIVE DR DuQuoin Perry IL 62832
Agriculture Galesburg Laboratory Site 2100 S Lake Storey Rd Galesburg Knox IL 61401
Agriculture Illinois State Fairgrounds Springfield 801 E Sangamon Ave Springfield Sangamon IL 62702
Agriculture Zell Farm 120 Acres 2125 E and 2150 E Beecher City Fayette IL 62414
Agriculture Zell Farm 160 Acres 2125 E and 2150 E Beecher City Fayette IL 62414
Agriculture Tracy Lane Home 358 Tracy Lane DuQuoin Perry IL 62832
Attorney General Attorney General Bldg - Springfield 500 S Second Street Springfield Sangamon IL 62706
Central Management Services Howe Developmental Center 7600 W 183rd St Tinley Park Cook IL 60477