https://secondcityzoning.org

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By DataMade

  * Zoning map
  * Zoning districts
  * Zoning rules
  * About

What is this?

2nd City Zoning is an interactive map that lets you:

  * find out how your building is zoned
  * learn where to locate your business
  * explore zoning patterns throughout the city

To make Chicago's zoning code digestible by humans, we took
inspiration from one of our favorite games: Sim City 2000.

It started with the color scheme: green for residential, blue for
commercial and yellow for industrial. (This oversimplifies things a
bit, read the full story.)

From there we got a little carried away. Graphics, sounds, music, oh
my.

We had a lot of fun making this, so dive in and explore!

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Find zone (find me)

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Zoning type (what's that?)

  * Residential Residential
  * Commercial Commercial
  * Industrial Industrial

  * Planned Development Planned Development
  * Transportation Transportation
  * Parks and Open Space Parks and Open Space

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  * Sim City Theme
  * Moogy City
  * City Shimmy

Questions? Email us!

Data accurate as of Oct 25, 2023. By DataMade, Derek Eder, and
Juan-Pablo Velez.