Year: 2009
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Founding of OpenGovChicago(-land)
Tonight was the first meeting of OpenGovChicago(-land), a new meetup I co-founded with Joe Germuska.
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IBM Smarter Cities Chicago Leadership Forum
Today I took part in an IBM Smarter Cities event. There were some great speakers, including economist Diane Swonk.She spoke for an hour w/o notes about the macro and micro-economy, especially in the Chicago area. She is an amazing person. Here is her 9/11 story: http://www.nabe.com/am2001/swonkstory.htm. Her talk focused on big data sets, but each…
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Launch: Demolition Hold List
Today I put a new thing on the Internet: Demolition Hold List, Chicago, IL: A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone). Please take a look at all of the great buildings and, if you can, contribute photos, text, and memories of the buildings listed there. I…
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Northside College Prep High School Career Day
I had a great time today at Northside College Prep High School talking about what I do at EveryBlock. Snip: Co-founder of Everyblock.com Dan X. O’Neil is the co-founder of Everyblock.com, an innovative computer company using technology to assist people. Dan’s position is “People Person” which means that he works with municipal governments to make…
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Presentation: MacArthur Foundation:”Some CTA Hacks”
Here’s my part of a presentation I made with Harper Reed and Jon Trowbridge at the MacArthur Foundation today. Some CTA Hacks View more presentations from Daniel x. O’neil.
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Writing Samples re: Open Government
Here are some examples of recent writing on open government:Inaccessible Pothole Data in Chicago: documenting my unsuccesful attempts to obtain pothole data from Chicago’s Department of Transportation And the Chicago Sun-Times references specific, detailed pothole numbers: “The city had a daily average of 300 to 400 potholes in the days before Christmas, but the number…
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LEGISLATION: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: City Council keeping info in TIF funds in black hole
Here’s an editorial in today’s Sun-Times.www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1488786,CST-EDT-edit22b….March 22, 2009It was a modest proposal. Two aldermen, Manny Flores and Scott Waguespack, suggested shedding some light on the city’s TIF district deals by putting information on the Internet.TIF stands for tax increment financing, but as we have explained before, this is what they really are: Mayor Daley’s private…
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LEGISLATION: Statement before the Joint Committee on Finance and Committee Economic, Capital and Technology Development of the Chicago City Council
Here’s my testimony at City Hall today in favor of the “Sunshine TIF Ordinance” proposed by Alderman Scott Waguespack and Alderman Manny Flores: Statement re: Chicago Sunshine TIF Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil Here’s the ordinance itself: Tif Sunshine Final Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil
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News Article: Police No Help for Crime Map Project
Here’s an article in the Gotham Gazette mentioning my efforts to get police data from the NYPD.
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Geographically Relevant Deals and Coupons on EveryBlock
I negotiated a partnerships between EveryBlock and Groupon for local coupons and deals. This was the first use of an API for Chicago-based Groupon.