Trails within the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required.

Cook County GIS Department map of municipal boundaries in Cook Cook County, Illinois in PDF format. Includes major streets, waterbodies, rail, Cook County Forest Preserve, and municipal boundaries.

Hydrographic data was collected for all of Cook County. Significant flowing and standing water features that were visible on the aerial photography were stereocompiled from 1998 aerial photography. The hydrographic midline data set represents, as a single line, the interpreted midline of flowing water features as seen on the aerial photography. The hydrographic midline data layer is used to show the location of the midline of natural drainage features, and is connected to polygonal (standing) hydrographic features such as lakes and ponds. The midline data layer also includes drainage features less than five feet in width, which were not included in the polygon hydrography data set. Midlines were added to water bodies such as double-line rivers to maintain the linear connectivity of the hydrographic network. Where the course of linear features (such as streams and rivers) in the hydrographic midline layer could not be compiled photogrammetrically due to being obscured by other features (such as vegetation or shadows), the obscured line segment was coded as "interpreted". In some cases, a flowing water feature may have run through an underground drain or culvert or its course otherwise obscured from view on the aerial photography. For such cases, in order to maintain linear connectivity of the features, its path was also interpreted and coded as such. Some hydrographic data was provided by the City of Chicago and incorporated into this data layer. These hydrographic data layers are modeled and stored as a network coverage containing polygons and/or lines. This midline data layer was created out of need by Cook County to develop a hydrographic layer in which water features are represented as single lines. The intended primary use of this data layer is for small-scale mapping and networking. The hydrographic midline layer was intersected with the street midline and railroad data layers to create nodes in the coverage model. It was also intersected with the bridge polygon data layer. Where hydrographic midline segments fall within a bridge polygon, they have been given a grade separation code of zero (0) to indicate the water level is technically "at grade". Hydrographic attributes include feature name, tax map name, and type. The primary source of the attribute information was the Cook County Highway Department database. Hydrographic names and alias IDs are linked to lookup tables based on the hydrographic name ID attribute.

The Parcel 2021 feature contains tax parcel polygons for the 2021 property tax assessment at the County. This feature reflects tax parcel polygons as they existed from 1/1/2021 through 12/31/2021. An ESRI Service is available at: https://hub-cookcountyil.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/34021b4f3b834a69bf737e6c3344888e_0

Private-facing version: https://ssmma-gis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e391d81589c149919cd84a5088d46e80Update log:Jun. 28, 2024 - fixed an issue where taxpayer data showed

4-Band aerial imagery flown in 2015 for Cook County at 6 inch pixel resolution. Mosaic name is CookMosaic2015_RGBNIR. Service published on 03/31/2017.To download, let your browser load blocked content. It is recommended that the GeoService URL is used for GIS applications, rather than downloading data. Full resolution data is available from the Cook County GIS Map Center.

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 3.

This layer contains polygons representing land that is under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (INPC), being designated either as a Nature Preserve, Nature Preserve buffer, or Land & Water Reserve and lying within the boundaries of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. Actual nature preserve boundaries may vary slightly from GIS polygons shown and should be verified with legal descriptions provided by INPC and Cook County Recorder of Deeds. For more information on Illinois Nature Preserves and the INPC, please visit: Illinois Nature Preserves Commission WebsiteSource data is maintained by the Forest Preserve District's Planning and Development Department (GIS Section) and uploaded to this layer daily.

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 17

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 9

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the way land in the United States is subdivided, it forms the foundation of Cook County's cadastral system for identifying and locating land records. Tax parcels are identified using township and section notation, in a modified format. The PLSS serves as a way for users to navigate the parcel geodatabase. This PLSS feature data set is intended to correspond to tax pages on the Cook County Tax Maps. They should not be used for measurement or surveyor purposes. In addition, the parcel attributes PINA (area/township) and PINSA (subarea/section) do not necessarily correspond to the PLSS township and section polygon in which a given parcel resides. The PLSS data is modeled as a single composite network coverage that encompasses townships (area), sections (subarea), quarter sections, and half quarter section. Tax map pages, which typically correspond to half quarter sections (in an east-west split), are modeled as a region subclass in the LANDFABRIC layer. If an indigenous people's reserve was present on the tax map, it was digitized to create subpolygons of the half-quarter section, and those polygons were attributed with the name of the reserve. Within this PLSS data set, a half-quarter section is the smallest polygon unit, except in cases where an Indigenous People's Reserve line is present. The cadastral data for Cook County have previously not been digital nor automated. This project is the initial automation for this information. This database was designed to represent a continuous, non-overlapping spatial database accounting for all land area in Cook County.The PLSS is updated as needed.

Cook County GIS Department map of Cook County Commissioner District 7 in PDF format. Includes major streets, waterbodies, rail, and Cook County Commissioner District boundaries.

Cook County GIS Department map of Cook County Commissioner District 14 in PDF format. Includes major streets, waterbodies, rail, and Cook County Commissioner District boundaries.

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 12

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 8

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 13

Fishing lakes in Cook County with contours. To view or use these shapefiles, compression software and special GIS software, such as ESRI ArcGIS, is required

Cook County Municipalities layer displays the boundaries of all municipalities within Cook County, IL.

© Cook County GIS Department This layer is a component of Boundary data layers for the Green Infrastructure Atlas.

© Calumet Stormwater Collaborative & South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association

The DEM of Cook County was developed from the DEM tiles that were delivered after the 2017 LiDAR acquisition. This DEM assembles all the tiles into one raster. It displays the bare earth returns of the LiDAR as a raster.

Cook County GIS Dept map of Commissioner District 5