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Welcome to Open Data Week 2012
The Cook County Board of Commissioners proclaimed April 23-27 as Open Data Week. To that end, the Cook County Bureau of Technology has filled the week with events and items on how government data is...
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The Launch of the First Ever Global Data Science Hackathon
Cook County’s Open Data Week is partnering with Big Data Week for a global spin on local data. This week, data scientists from around the world will come together on the 28th April for the first ever...
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Information Week Names Cook County Bureau of Technology a Leading Government...
Information Week Magazine named Cook County Government’s Bureau of Technology one of the leading innovators in Government Information Technology for 2012. InformationWeek’s Government IT Innovators...
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President Preckwinkle and Mayor Emanuel Announce Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
Cook County Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle and City of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the creation of Skills for Chicagoland’s Future (SCF)—a public-private partnership...
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President Preckwinkle Recognizes the Cook County New Media Council
President Preckwinkle has formed a New Media Council composed of marketing and social media experts who will help the County develop a digital strategy to better engage, serve, and connect with the...
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County Eliminates Charge for GIS Data
Cook County has eliminated charges for its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, making it free and more accessible to the public. Starting January 1, 2014, users will no longer have to pay for...
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Cook County Partners with Smart Chicago Collaborative to Expand Open Data
The Cook County Board today approved a partnership between the Bureau of Technology and Smart Chicago Collaborative that will expand the open data the County provides and make it easier for the public...
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Open Data Portal May Improvements
During the past several weeks we have been working on making incremental improvements to the user experience of the data portal. Default View The default display type has been changed from “compact...
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New Annual Salary Data Posted to County Open Data Catalog
On May 14th we added new salary data to the Cook County Open Data Portal containing annual salary information as of May 12, 2014. There are three previous salary data releases on the portal: September...
View ArticlePreckwinkle Seeks Accountability in Use of County-Owned Vehicles
Settlement with Chicago on years of tickets called ‘long overdue’ The Cook County Board of Commissioners today approved a settlement with the City of Chicago for more than 20 years’ worth of parking...
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