
Open Data and Transparency News
A major update to Cook County’s main website, unveiled today, will enable visitors to www.cookcountyil.gov to more easily connect with the County services they need, said County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. “Government websites have a

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