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Every chart below can go in your story. Each one updates itself when the city or the federal government publishes new numbers, and each lists its sources.
Using our charts and numbers
Our charts, tables and the figures we calculate are free to use, quote and embed. Please credit Shape Chicago and link to the page the number came from. The underlying data belongs to the agencies that publish it; each chart names them.
Shape Chicago is a fan-made project. It is not affiliated with the City of Chicago, CTA, Metra or Pace, and it takes no side in elections. Estimates are labeled as estimates, and each section ends with how we count.
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Charts you can embed
Paste the code into your story’s HTML. Every chart page on Progress also has an Embed button.
- Homes permitted each year, and what was left after teardownsProgress › HomesPreview
- A permit is not a finished homeProgress › HomesPreview
- Where the homes are goingProgress › HomesPreview
- How long a housing permit takesProgress › HomesPreview
- What followed each year’s votesProgress › ZoningPreview
- Where the listed homes areProgress › AffordablePreview
- Rides on CTA, Metra and Pace, millions a yearProgress › TransitPreview
- Traffic deaths each yearProgress › StreetsPreview
- People seriously hurt in crashes each yearProgress › StreetsPreview
Optional: let the chart set its own height
Add this once to the page, after the iframes, if your site allows scripts.
<script>addEventListener("message", e => { if (!e.data || !e.data.scEmbed) return; document.querySelectorAll('iframe[src*="/embed/' + e.data.scEmbed + '/"]').forEach(f => f.style.height = e.data.h + "px"); });</script>How the simulators work
The housing, transit, budget and pensions simulators are estimates, not forecasts. Each lists its sources and every assumption it makes: open Sources in the header of any simulator. Plans that people share are on Plans people made, with a summary of the most common choices on What people picked.