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A small set of South and West Side community areas, led by South Shore at roughly two to three times the citywide filing rate, carries eviction burden
The real public data behind Where Chicago Files Evictions and Who Bears the Filings. Chicago Evictions Data (Release 2), eviction_data_comm_area.csv plus eviction_data_tract.csv, eviction_data_ward.csv, eviction_data_chicago.csv. Files are hosted here directly so the analysis is reproducible; analysis.py reads only these files and prints the figures the paper reports.
These files are hosted directly on Rooted Forward and load below as live spreadsheets. Sort by clicking a column header, filter rows with the search box, change page size, or use Export current view in any spreadsheet toolbar to save your filtered view in CSV, TSV, or JSON.
analysis.py
Reproducible pandas script. Verifies the developments file is a subset of the portfolio, isolates OCII Western Addition-Area 2 (21 developments / 914 units / 821 income-restricted), tabulates tenure a
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.
census_data_comm_area.csv
LCBH-supplied ACS 5-year housing-unit counts by community area for the 2006-2010 and 2014-2018 estimate periods (154 rows). Provides housing_units_rental, the denominator for the share-of-rental-units
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
License
Code MIT, derived data CC BY 4.0.
What the cleaned archive will contain when complete. Column names and types may evolve until the archive ships.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| census_year | text | |
| area_name | text | |
| area_number | text | |
| housing_units_total | text | |
| housing_units_rental | text | |
| housing_units_other | text |
eviction_data_chicago.csv
LCBH Release 2 citywide eviction totals, one row per year 2010-2019 (10 rows), same 47-column schema. Source of citywide rate, time trend, citywide representation gap, and back-rent band shares.
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
eviction_data_comm_area.csv
LCBH Release 2 eviction data by Chicago community area, 2010-2019. 770 data rows (77 areas x 10 years), 47 columns: filing counts, rate per 100 rental units, case type, back-rent bands, landlord/tenan
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
eviction_data_field_definitions.pdf
LCBH official field-definitions document, shipped unmodified. Defines eviction_filings_rate as filings per 100 rental units and documents the completed-cases-only rule for non-rate fields.
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.
eviction_data_tract.csv
LCBH Release 2 eviction data by census tract, 2010-2019. 8,040 data rows across 804 tracts, same schema. Shipped to support the paper's finer-grained map; not charted directly because 804 tracts excee
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
methodology_release_2.pdf
LCBH official methodology document for Release 2, shipped unmodified for citation and provenance.
Source: Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), Chicago Evictions data portal
This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.
| median_rent | text |
| population_total | text |
| population_poverty_below | text |
| population_poverty_above | text |
| population_race_white | text |
| population_race_black | text |
| population_race_latinx | text |
| population_race_asian | text |