Based on customer request, we have improved several features and functions on the Chicago Businesses Map & Spreadsheet. This page helps people find the number of businesses of a given type (like, "Retail Sales of Perishable Foods") and the number of those types in a given neighborhood.
The improvements include:
Additionally, there are more filters in more places:
- Filters added to the Businesses Map & Spreadsheet section on each Place page
- Filters added to the Businesses Map & Spreadsheet section on each Address Snapshot
We get our data from the City of Chicago's business licenses dataset. Not all businesses are required to be licensed by the city. Banks, for example, are licensed by the State of Illinois.