Chicago Cityscape updated its amenities database to add 1,000 more features across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. This database includes coffee shops, medical offices, grocery stores, banks, libraries, restaurants, and other essential places for urban living. Every Property Report and Place Report has been updated as of this writing, including those one-time purchases by non-members.

We use OpenStreetMap as our primary database for this data, which is open source and editable by anyone (although, similar to Wikipedia, only a few dedicated people maintain the database in this region). 

We invite our members to report or suggest new and closed businesses, places of worship, and other places (like parks and playgrounds) and Chicago Cityscape will make the necessary changes to the global database. Contributions others make, and that we make ourselves, are downloadable and usable by anyone. 

When a member uses Property Report to analyze a property on Chicago Cityscape, Amenities & Social infrastructure measures all of these features within a one-mile walking distance and tabulates them. This is useful for developers and brokers to better understand what's near a property. The data are even searchable; enter "grocery" and the map will show only the grocery stores within a one-mile walking distance.

Check out what's proximal to the Harold Washington Library Center in the screenshot and list below.

Community assets within a 1-mile walk of the Harold Washington Library Center

• 6 grocery stores
• 4 libraries
• 65 cafés & coffee shops
• 25 parks
• 189 restaurants
• 73 fast food places
• 21 banks
• 61 bars & pubs
• 0 community gardens
• 0 community centers
• 9 pharmacies
• 6 health & medical
• 10 schools
• 0 federally-qualified health centers (FQHC)