Suburban Cook County Election Precincts maintained by the Cook County Clerk's Election Department. Not included are the City of Chicago Election Precincts which are maintained by the Chicago Board Of Elections. An ArcGIS Service is available at: https://hub-cookcountyil.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/0e91b48d49744346be343f0cb99d25bd_0/

Voting District Project of the Census Redistricting Data Program commenced in Summer of 2017 to establish the state’s Voting precincts within the bureau’s tiger geography. The initial phase used the Bureau’s GUPS plugin for QGIS to update the districts from the 2010 round, and then a secondary verification phase took place to ensure the updated voting districts were properly enacted into Tiger geographic files. A post census effort took place in December 2021 to cut the number of precincts down countywide to 1430. Election Data Services conducted Phase 2 of the Census Redistricting Data Program for the State of Illinois, as well as implemented changes made post census in Cook County.

Precincts are updated as needed before every election by the Cook County Clerk's Elections Department.

Ward boundaries in Chicago from May 2023 onward, corresponding to the dates when a new City Council is sworn in, based on the immediately preceding elections. Neither this description nor the dataset should be relied upon in situations where legal precision is required. ​​​​​This dataset is in a forma​​t for spatial datasets that is inherently tabular but allows for a map as a derived view. Please click the indicated link below for such a map. To export the data in either tabular or geographic format, please use the Export button on this dataset.

Ward precincts, which function as local election districts to determine the polling places for voters, based on their addresses. Precincts are based on U.S. Census Bureau blocks. These precincts were first used for the 2014 elections and first used for Chicago municipal elections in 2015. This dataset is in a format for spatial datasets that is inherently tabular but allows for a map as a derived view. Please click the indicated link below for such a map. To export the data in either tabular or geographic format, please use the Export button on this dataset.

Chicago Heights Municipal Atlas Data Layers - March 25, 2020 uploadData LayersWards (2018)* Alderman's name and contact emailCity-Owned Parcels* Unknown year of data, but differs from 2016 Cook County Assessor dataHeritage Preservation Overlay DistrictVoting Precincts (2018)Municipal Boundary (2016)* Differs from Cook County municipal boundary data, but this boundary will be prioritized.Vacant Properties (2016) - Points [for heat map]Vacant Properties (2016) - ParcelsLand Bank Properties (2017)Lawn Maintenance Parcels (2019)

This is the ward map that preceded the 1992 map. The file was generated largely from voting district boundaries (which are numbered by ward) and may consequently contain some minor errors. Christopher Siciliano did a considerable amount of cleaning up of this file. Name of the shapefile is ward1986.shp

About

There have been several blog posts about open data in Chicago (see here and here) - though there doesn't seem to be a single registry of open data.

Political/administrative boundary data sets are available at:

• Boundary Data

Datasets include:

• Census Block
• Census Data -- November 2004
• Census Tracts
• City Boundary
• Citywide Wards Map
• Community Areas
• IL House
• IL Senate
• Surrounding Municipalities
• Neighborhoods
• Precincts
• TIFS 2008
• US Congress
• Zipcodes

Openness

Assume this is intended to be open, but no information found on whether or not data can legally be reused.

This is the ward map for Chicago that was in effect between 1998 and early 2003. The file was derived from the Tiger 1998 voting district file. George Stachokas has edited the file, altering some of the boundaries to make them more closely resemble the boundaries shown in the city of Chicago's published ward maps. Name of the shapefile is ward1998.shp

List of alderman, office address, phone number, and website for all 50 Chicago wards. To attempt to make historical versions of this dataset more available, "Dataset Changelog" is enabled at the bottom of the main page. We cannot guarantee that the archival records will remain permanently so advise downloading any you think you may want. Some intermediate versions, especially minor changes, may not be visible. The map based on this dataset will not have past versions.

The Chicago City Code, Chapter 4-17, allows for shared housing rentals to be prohibited or restricted in specified precincts. This dataset shows those precincts for which such restrictions have been requested by voter petition, including those approved by ordinance and potentially those for which an attempted repeal of the prohibition is underway or complete.

Current status can be determined from the most recent date.

This map is in an old format that is no longer supported. We recommend using the new map instead. This map may be deleted eventually.

List of alderman, office address, phone number, and website for all 50 Chicago wards.

Selected variables from the most recent 5 year ACS Community Survey (Released 2023) aggregated by Ward. Additional years will be added as they become available. The underlying algorithm to create the dataset calculates the percent of a census tract that falls within the boundaries of a given ward. Given that census tracts and ward boundaries are not aligned, these figures should be considered an estimate. Total Population in this Dataset: 2,649,803 Total Population of Chicago reported by ACS 2023: 2,664,452 % Difference: %-0.55 There are different approaches in common use for displaying Hispanic or Latino population counts. In this dataset, following the approach taken by the Census Bureau, a person who identifies as Hispanic or Latino will also be counted in the race category with which they identify. However, again following the Census Bureau data, there is also a column for White Not Hispanic or Latino. The City of Chicago is actively soliciting community input on how best to represent race, ethnicity, and related concepts in its data and policy. Every dataset, including this one, has a "Contact dataset owner" link in the Actions menu. You can use it to offer any input you wish to share or to indicate if you would be interested in participating in live discussions the City may host. Code can be found here: https://github.com/Chicago/5-Year-ACS-Survey-Data Ward Shapefile: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Facilities-Geographic-Boundaries/Boundaries-Wards-2023-Map/cdf7-bgn3 Census Area Python Package Documentation: https://census-area.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

This map was current from 1992 until 1998, when litigation forced some boundary changes. This file contains accurate straight lines in some places where the corresponding street files have inaccurate crooked lines. The author of this boundary file is Christopher Siciliano. It was edited very slightly in 2001 by George Stachokas.