Vacant Land and the Cook County Land Bank

City-owned vacant parcels concentrate on the West and South Sides (Englewood, New City, North Lawndale, West Englewood, East Garfield Park each over 1

The real public data behind Vacant Land and the Cook County Land Bank. City-Owned Land Inventory (City of Chicago). 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, via the Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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

• chicago-city-owned-land-inventory.csv

  Full City of Chicago City-Owned Land Inventory pulled from the Chicago Data Portal (Socrata dataset aksk-kvfp) on 2026-05-29. 20,732 parcels. The redundant 'location' geo-string column and the duplica

  Source: City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, via the Chicago Data Portal (Socrata)

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