Open Data and Transparency News
Settlement with Chicago on years of tickets called ‘long overdue’
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced the launch of Connect to Cook, a robust web-based GIS application aimed at encouraging economic development within Cook County.
On May 14th we added new salary data to the Cook County Open Data Portal containing annual salary information as of May 12, 2014. There are three previous salary data releases on the portal: September 16, 2011, September 22, 2011, and March 5, 2013.
During the past several weeks we have been working on making incremental improvements to the user experience of the data portal.
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The default display type has been changed from “compact list” to “rich list.” The Rich List display shows m
Lobbyists reported contacting Cook County officials less in 2013, yet the number of lobbyists and their compensation was higher than any year since online filing began, according to reports submitted to Clerk David Orr’s Lobbyist Online website.
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