EveryBlock Essays
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Wrigley Field Work, March 2010
My deep dive of data about Wrigley Field scooped a front-page story in the Chicago Tribune by three days.
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Actual Civic Legislation, Actually Being Published, Reviewed, and Debated, Right Here in Chicago
Take a look at this post from the Reader's Ben Joravsky, helpfully subtitled "Mayor Daley proposes watered-down 2016 oversight to replace Manny Flores's oversight compromise". Basically it chronicles a development at City Hall yesterday, whereby Alderman Manny Flores introduced a draft ordinance requiring strict oversight of the activities of the Chicago 2016 Committee, including details…
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Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
Today I published this post on MediaShift IdeaLab: Open Government Data and the EveryBlock Project
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What EveryBlock Means To Me
Today I helped launch EveryBlock, a Web site that filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city. We’re launching today in the first three of many cities– Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. My job at…