This is a new weekly feature that will highlight what’s happening at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. TheChicago OpenGov Hack Nights are weekly events where technologists and community members come together to work with open data and build tools that improve…
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OpenGov Hack Night: IDES and Sunlight Foundation
Here’s this week’s recap of OpenGov Hack Night Chicago: This week we live streamed the presentations due to the weather and the CTA Brown line trains not running through the loop. This week’s first presentation: The Illinois Department of Employment…
OpenGov Chicago Meeting: The Knight News Challenge, Mayors Challenge, and WBEZ
If you missed Tuesday’s OpenGov Meeting, the recording is below. Later today, we’ll be putting together a more comprehensive recap of the meeting. Here’s the meeting minutes. And here’s my writeup: On a snowy slushy night in Chicago, civic minded…
OpenGov Hack Night: VA Records, OpenStreetMap, and Chicago’s data on GitHub
Here’s a recap of OpenGov Hack Night. This week’s presentation: Gravitytank wins the White House Health Design Challenge Gravitytank, a consultancy firm located here in Chicago, recently won the White House Health Design Challenge. The challenge was to help redesign health…
Last week at Chicago’s OpenGov Hack Night
This is a new weekly feature that will highlight what’s happening at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. The Chicago OpenGov Hack Nights are weekly events where technologists and community members come together to work with open data and build tools…
President Preckwinkle’s #TellToni Twitter Chat
President Preckwinkle has just launched a New Media Council in order to help the County better interact with citizens through digital channels. The council is co-chaired by Smart Chicago Executive Director Dan O’Neil. One of the very first initiatives to come from…
