Every year, aldermen in Chicago receive $1 million (labeled “menu money”) with a designated use for various ward infrastructure projects, such as revamping playgrounds, mending roads and sidewalks, putting in new streetlights, etc. Typically, city leaders make the
MORE >Curious to know how much crime actually happens in your Chicago neighborhood? Last week, Open City launched a new data visualization web app that allows interested users to explore crime trends in Chicago across its 50 wards. The website, MORE > Politics is not often favorably compared to a game, but Max Dieber, director of the Urban Data Visualization Lab in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has taken advantage of the playful framework of a computer game to generate youth
Playing Games in Politics |