Welcome to the Chicago Democracy Project
Our mission is to bridge the digital divide by providing citizens, community groups and religious organizations with online information regarding campaign finance, electoral outcomes, government contracts, minority appointments and levels of public employment in Latino and Black communities. In addition, the CDP will be an information portal that will provide links to demographic, economic, and other demographic information of interest to the public.
You may also get started by entering a search term (To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotation marks)
Integration note: upload security module and settings
Integration note: multiple language module
Integration note: reintegrate language choice form
CDP News
22 Aug. Work begun on 'my cdp' pagePersonal pages will be provided for all registered users where favorite searches, most frequent searches, personal notes, etc. This is a phase '1.5' project, but we have begun the process by implementing a most-recently used searches function.
Aug 22. 'Bread crumbs' navigation system activatedA web-interface standard 'bread-crumbs' system was added to help users navigate the site. A bread crumb system indicates at any given time where you are given the navigational structure of the site. For instance, if you are on the examples page, the examples page is a part of the help system, so the bread crumbs indicate Home > Help > Examples.
Aug 18. More convenient help screensInstead of centrally locating help screens in a help facility, we have moved it to where you need it most: on the screen where you are located. We have done so without cluttering the screen by using web tricks to hide and show text on your command (You will need javascript activated for this to work).
Aug 16. This Screen!Site news section (this page!) added to enhance the user experience and to let CDP users know what's new in both data and features.
Aug 12. Favorite SearchesAdded tracking of most recent (and favorite) searches by registered users. This should make it much more convenient to revisit data you find interesting at the site. Note that this information is YOUR information, it will not be used for any recruitment, commercial or marketing purposes by CDP or it's affiliates.
Aug 1, 2005. Election Data 2000-present update.Election data for 2000 to present for Chicago elections has been downloaded from the chicago election committee's web site. We are waiting for funding to process this into usuable information as well as permission to use the download3ed data. Please check back soon for updates.
July 20. New data-centric menu.The left-menu on the home page has been updated to include more useful links to the data archived by the site rather than links into training and help
July 15. Search Engine Goes On-lineData archived by the Chicago Democracy Project was made searchable today through the implementation of a full-featured Lucene-based search engine.
June 1, 2005. Election Data (1989-1999)Full election data for local chicago elections has been published as well as precinct level summaries of how chicago voted in state and even some federal elections.
June 1, 2005. GIS-enabled census dataSocial Science Computing at the university of Chicago has contributed some fantastic geographically encoded views of chicago census data. At this time, we have census summaries for race, income and housing variable. More variables from the census can be requested. We have each of these encode down to the census block, by chicago ward/precint, house and senate boundaries, neighborhoods, et al.
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