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Civic Footprint civic participation tool
Supporting organization:
Center for Neighborhood Technology
URL:
www.civicfootprint.org
Location:
Cook County, Illinois
Project Description:
The Civic Footprint is a website dedicated to helping residents of Cook County, Illinois determine the political and civic geographies associated with where they live. These geographies include:
• Wards
• Police Districts
• Community Areas
• Judicial Subcircuits
• County Districts
• State Representative Districts
• State Senate Districts
• Congressional Districts
A user just types in his/her address and a form returns to him/her their unique “Footprint.� The tool is designed to help residents get more engaged in their community and to better understand the different jurisdictions in which they might get involved. Healthy, sustainable communities, after all, are dependent upon active citizens who help make democratic institutions work.
The Civic Footprint civic participation tool is a project of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (www.cnt.org).
Points of interest:
This project is unique because while much of the information provided by the Footprint is publicly available elsewhere, the Civic Footprint brings all these pieces of data together in one place. It also gives users s visual and spatial image of where they reside in the context of the many political and civic jurisdictions that circumscribe them. Lastly, it is one of the only tools anywhere in the country, we believe, that aggregates all this kind of information in one place.
