The Chicago Building Scofflaw Ordinance (Section 2-92-416 of the Municipal Code of Chicago) is designed to prevent landlords that refuse or refrain from correcting ongoing building code violations from receiving city contracts, including those that subsidize housing. Building owners must have a least three residential buildings with uncorrected violations and have had three or more properties referred to Circuit Court within the applicable 12 month period to be eligible for the list. The building code scofflaw list is updated once a year on the first business day of December, and building owners may appeal being named on the list. Building owners with controlling interest in at least three residential properties that have habitual, extensive or serioues building code violations are now ineligible for any new city contracts in 2015. The following individuals or entities have been placed on the Building Code Scofflaw list for the entire calendar year.
This dataset has the following 13 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEFENDANT OWNER | defendant_owner | text | A list of the building owners who are named as defendants in the code enforcement proceeding as of the owner list date. Owners are listed one month after the building list date. | GONG JIN LUO ZION INVESTMENTS, LTD CARLSON PROPERTIES I LLC GARY R CARLSON | CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST CO. TR# 1108470 Dtd 5/23/00 TD REO FUND, LLC view top 100 |
| ADDRESS | address | text | Primary address of building (used for geocoding and other geographic information). | 6428 S HERMITAGE AVE 3929 W GLADYS AVE 2437 W LITHUANIAN PLAZA CT 2004 W CULLERTON ST 206 W 113TH ST view top 100 |
| SECONDARY ADDRESS | secondary_address | text | An alternative address that could be used to describe building location. This was not used for any geocoding. | 1115-1127 E 81ST ST 6440-6442 S PARNELL AVE 8003-8005 S INGLESIDE AVE 8222-8228 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE 6420-6422 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE view top 100 |
| TERTIARY ADDRESS | tertiary_address | text | An alternative address that could be used to describe building location. This was not used for any geocoding. | 7955-7959 S EMERALD AVE 3732-3742 W AINSLIE ST 847-853 E 79TH ST 747-751 E 65TH ST 900 N RIDGEWAY AVE view top 100 |
| CIRCUIT COURT CASE NUMBER | field | text | Case number for the Cook County Circuit Court | 18-M1-403654 20-M1-400210 19-M1-401798 19-M1-402031 18-M1-400723 view top 100 |
| COMMUNITY AREA | community_area | text | The name of the community area. For context, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago | SOUTH DEERING WEST ENGLEWOOD ALBANY PARK CHATHAM AUSTIN view top 100 |
| COMMUNITY AREA NUMBER | community_area_number | text | The ID that corresponds with COMMUNITY AREA in this dataset. For context, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago | 51 67 14 44 25 view top 100 |
| WARD | ward | text | The number of the ward (city council district) as of the building list date | 7 33 8 28 16 view top 100 |
| X_COORDINATE | x_coordinate | number | The east-west coordinate defined in feet, based on NAD 83 - State Plane Eastern IL | 1158091.4314218464 1182951.6800058545 1185163.5536663157 1178615.4456811426 1182132.388662386 view top 100 |
| Y_COORDINATE | y_coordinate | number | The north-south coordinate defined in feet, based on NAD 83 - State Plane Eastern IL | 1862510.04594718 1855727.4837282968 1827069.0281712431 1852104.1949734893 1881323.0329610491 view top 100 |
| LOCATION | location | point | The location of the building (based on the ADDRESS column) in a format that allows for mapping and other geographic analysis on this portal. | {"coordinates":[-87.724263038,41.87598202],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-87.628166027,41.689082008],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-87.695145983,41.874685004],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-87.668072017,41.776700011],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-87.660672976,41.771667014],"type":"Point"} view top 100 |
| LONGITUDE | longitude | number | The longitude of the building (based on the ADDRESS column). | -87.660672976 -87.695145983 -87.74412597 -87.684853006 -87.724263038 view top 100 |
| LATITUDE | latitude | number | The latitude of the building (based on the ADDRESS column). | 41.87598202 41.85511699 41.771667014 41.689082008 41.74740702 view top 100 |