Where Chicago TIF Money Goes Across Wards and Community Areas

Chicago TIF dollars concentrate heavily in a handful of downtown and downtown-adjacent community areas (top five about 57% of approved funding), a des

The real public data behind Where Chicago TIF Money Goes Across Wards and Community Areas. Chicago TIF/RDA Funded Projects (Redevelopment Agreements). Files are hosted here directly so the analysis is reproducible; analysis.py reads only these files and prints the figures the paper reports.

• 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: City of Chicago (Department of Planning and Development / Chicago Data Portal), shipped in repo

  11.9 kBDownload PYView at source

  This file is not a tabular CSV. Use the download button above to save it locally.

• chicago-tif-funded-rda-projects.csv

  City of Chicago Dept. of Planning and Development, TIF/RDA project records (768 records citywide; 65 in corridor community areas, 20 of them residential affordable projects). Copied byte-identical fro

  Source: City of Chicago (Department of Planning and Development / Chicago Data Portal), shipped in repo

  452.3 kBDownload CSV

Documented Schema

What the cleaned archive will contain when complete. Column names and types may evolve until the archive ships.