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CScrub API

Chicago City Council Votes at Your Fingertips

Please note: This project is currently being rebuilt. All features are not yet operational in this build.

Summary

The bot extracts council members, legistlation, meetings, and votes from the Chicago City Clerk's website. This data is then used to power this API. For bot documentation, please visit /docs/bot.md. For API documentation, please visit /docs/api.md.

What For

To convert this: City Clerk website Into this: PostgreSQL database with City Clerk data

City Council vote data is publicly available on the City Clerk's website, but formulating an overview of a council member's voting record is difficult. Additionally, this information is not yet available on the Open Data Portal.

Caveats

  • Only fetches the last 100 City Council meetings (through 9/14/2016).
  • Only fetches first 200 legislation for each meeting.

Resources

A shoutout to these folks for the assists!
/docs/resources.md