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What happened to the 49 Chicago schools closed in 2013, eleven years on. Buildings, students, and adjacent blocks.
Tract-level CPS post-closure tracking panel (de-identified), the CPS Facilities Master Plan, the Cook County Assessor block-level vacancy panel, and Chicago Public Library branch circulation. The CPS tracking file came through Illinois FOIA 2024-04311 and ships subject to the redaction terms of that release.
The cleaned Rooted Forward replication archive for this paper is in preparation. Until it is released, every record below traces to a public upstream source. These are the same files we draw on, hosted by their primary publishers.
Chicago Public Schools · School Actions Archive
2013 closure list and Facilities Master Plan annual updates.
https://www.cps.edu/about/district-data/
Chicago Data Portal · CPS Schools
Search 'CPS schools' for the live dataset.
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
Chicago Public Library · Open Data
Branch circulation totals.
https://www.chipublib.org/about/data/
Cook County Assessor
Block-level vacancy panel source.
https://www.cookcountyassessor.com/property-data
Files in the archive
cps-2013-closures-tracking.csv
11,729 displaced students aggregated to tract.
cps-facilities-master-plan-2013-2024.csv
Annual disposition status per building.
cps-block-vacancy-panel.csv
Quarter-mile buffer vacancy 2013 through 2024.
cpl-circulation-2013-2024.csv
CPL branch monthly circulation totals.
License
Code/tables MIT. CPS tracking file subject to FOIA 2024-04311 redaction terms.
Provenance
The columns and types you can expect once the archive is live. Sample rows are intentionally omitted; we publish only verified records, not synthetic placeholders.
Schema · 4 columns · no sample rows
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| closed_school | text | |
| community_area | text | |
| buffer_vacancy_2013 | numeric | |
| buffer_vacancy_2024 | numeric |