URBN 233 - Chicago (Young)

City of Chicago's open data portal lets you find city data, find facts about your neighborhood, create maps and graphs about the city, and freely download the data for your own analysis.

"Tracks poverty-related indicators for the nation and for a variety of geographies in Illinois and across the Midwest." Try the Data tab, which includes data on Chicago neighborhoods.

The official regional planning organization for Cook County. MetroPulse contains a set of Community Data Snapshots that summarize demographics, housing, employment, transportation habits, retail sales, property values, and land use in metropolitan Chicago's 284 municipalities. Search for your neighborhood under Chicago Community Areas.

A good source of data on children and families. Narrow your location to Illinois. Not all data is neighborhood-specific, but it will give you a sense of the Chicago area in general.

Provides neighborhood-specific data on demographics, income, and education, taken from the U.S. Census and the American Community Survey. The Census Bureau doesn't recognize neighborhoods, so neighborhood-level data is estimated.

Includes research reports for Chicago