Month: September 2013
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A Look at the Databases Used in Reporting “City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store”
This morning I read the story, “City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store: Liquor store with ties to felon just the latest problem for a blighted neighborhood that has suffered for decades” by Chicago Tribune reporters David Jackson and Gary Marx. I was struck by two things: the complexity of the issue of economic development in an area that…
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S-L Birthday Celebration / Hyde Park Jazz Fest
Today we celebrated S-L’s birthday. Here’s a video: SLBirthdayAndHydeParkJazzFest from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. We had dinner at Francesca’s on Chestnut then went to the University of Chicago campus for the HydePark Jazz Fest. We saw Angel d’ Cuba, walked around campus for a while, and then saw the amazing Ken Vendermark Ensemble.
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On Parsing Restaurant Inspection Violations (Subtitled: Goddess and the Grocer on Elston Had a Bad Day Last Week)
This morning I was reviewing a saved view on the City of Chicago data portal for restaurant inspections conducted by the Chicago Department of Public Health based on a suspected food poisoning. I used a feature of Socrata, the software used in the portal, that The Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) is an effort by Yelp, Code for…
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The Chicago Board of Health
Here’s an entity that I did not know existed: The Chicago Board of Health. Here’s info from the City website: The Chicago Board of Health formulates health policies and advises the Mayor and the Public Health Commissioner on all health issues. The Board promulgates all health regulations, including emergency regulations. * It shall be the duty…