Chicago meta information and other fun stuff
Project description
Information about Chicago and it’s geographies. Inspired by [python-us](https://github.com/unitedstates/python-us/tree/master/us).
Because sometimes you just need to loop through a list of Chicago neighborhoods.
Installation
Install using pip:
pip install chicago
Usage
### Iterate over community areas
>>> from chicago import COMMUNITY_AREAS >>> for ca in COMMUNITY_AREAS: ... print(ca.name, ca.number) ... ('Rogers Park', '1') ('West Ridge', '2') ('Uptown', '3') ('Lincoln Square', '4') ('North Center', '5') ('Lake View', '6') ('Lincoln Park', '7') ('Near North Side', '8') ('Edison Park', '9')
### Get a community area by number
>>> COMMUNITY_AREAS.get_by_number(22) CommunityArea(name='Logan Square', number='22')
### Iterate over neighborhoods
>>> from chicago import NEIGHBORHOODS >>> for n in NEIGHBORHOODS: ... print(n) Albany Park Andersonville Archer Heights Armour Square Ashburn Auburn Gresham Austin Avalon Park Avondale Belmont Cragin
### Iterate over census tracts
>>> from chicago import TRACTS >>> for tract in TRACTS: ... print(tract) 17031010100 17031010100 17031010100 17031010100 17031010201
### Get the census tract that contains a Chicago precinct
>>> from chicago import PRECINCTS >>> precinct = PRECINCTS[0] >>> from chicago import get_tract_from_precinct_id >>> tract = get_tract_from_precinct_id(precinct.full_name) >>> print(tract)
### Get the census tract that contains a suburban Cook county precinct
>>> from chicago.cook_suburbs import COOK_SUBURBAN_PRECINCTS, get_suburban_cook_tract_from_precinct_number >>> precinct = COOK_SUBURBAN_PRECINCTS[0] >>> tract = get_suburban_cook_tract_from_precinct_number(precinct.objectid) >>> print(tract) 17031804202
Data Sources
### Community Areas
[Boundaries - Community Areas (current)](https://data.cityofchicago.org/Facilities-Geographic-Boundaries/Boundaries-Community-Areas-current-/cauq-8yn6))
### Neighborhoods
[Boundaries - Neighborhoods](https://data.cityofchicago.org/Facilities-Geographic-Boundaries/Boundaries-Neighborhoods/bbvz-uum9) from the City of Chicago Data Portal
Building the data
This package uses Fabric to generate the CSV files that underly the Python API.
### Cleaning up build files
fab clean
### Generating precinct to census tract crosswalk CSVs
fab build_precinct_to_tract_crosswalks
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