May 20th, 2021 - City's Open Data Portal: Economic Development Incentives, City Owned Properties, Maps, Graphs & Data & MORE - Alfresco Eateries - ChiStreetWorks - Finessing Zoom - Get Outdoors: Bike Routes, Trips

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Established in 2012, the City's Open Data Portal connects you with a wealth of information, facts, maps, and graphs about Chicago plus the ability to download the data for personal analysis. Much of the datasets are updated at least once a day, many several times a day. You'll find financial incentives to spur economic development, a Mural Registry, the citywide Street Sweeping schedule, where TV and movie crews are filming, traffic crash sites, and MORE - plus a YouTube video to show you how to use the portal. Click here to access the Portal.

Among the accessible information on the portal is a list of City-owned properties, sortable by Ward, Neighborhood, Zip Code, and umpteen other categories. There's is a disclaimer that data should not be used as a substitute for title research, evidence, or insurance, real estate tax exemption, or payment status. Nor for environmental or geo-technical due diligence, a substitute for legal, accounting, real estate, business, tax, or other professional advice. Whew! Click here to access property inventory.

Spring and summer entice us outdoors. It's also a peak time for road and construction projects that slow traffic unless you plan a workaround for affected streets and areas. A link provided by the Chicago Department of Transportation can smooth trip time and tempers. ChiStreetWork is the City's infrastructure map portal, created to facilitate coordination between City agencies and utilities, and provide travelers with valuable information about construction activities and street impacts from construction projects, special events, and roadway moratoriums. Click for ChiStreetWork

“Chicago Alfresco” proposals from community organizations interested in developing outdoor community spaces for public enjoyment of dining, public life, community, arts, culture, walking, and biking - Click here for Alfresco Info'

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Click for 8 Beautiful Bike Rides in Chicago & the Suburbs - Chicago Parent, April 2020

Getting outdoors by train, bus or bike needs a destination - Here are several lists of eateries with outdoor patios, rooftop or street-side dining in Chicago and the 'burbs.

Alfresco dining in Chicago from Yelp.

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Save the date for the Rockwell Street Infrastructure Task Force meeting, via Zoom. The agenda includes an update on a traffic study being conducted by the Chicago Department of Transportation and neighborhood planning efforts led by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development to ensure the Rockwell Street area,, between Belmont and Elston Avenues, remains a great place to work, do business, and live.

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The Doomsday Clock has been reset 24 times since it was created in 1947 - most recently in 2020. The Clock, located in the Keller Center, home to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, was developed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - a non-profit group founded by Albert Einstein and students from the University of Chicago in 1945.

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