1. Audrey Mathis, Director - 311 City Services Chicago

3. Background
In 2012, the City of Chicago’s Department of Innovation & Technology developed WindyGrid, an enterprise geographic information system.
Designed for City Personnel, as a unified view of City operations, giving them access to spatial datasets such as 911 and 311 service calls, transit and mobile asset locations, building information, geospatially-enabled public tweets, and other critical information.  
Building on the success of WindyGrid, Chicago worked to expand an open-source solution of its city data to the public and OpenGrid launched in January, 2016.
OpenGrid won the Amazon Web Services (AWS) “City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge” earning the Dream Big Award of $50,000 in AWS promotional credits.
WindyGrid
- Departments were successfully able to use WindyGrid to provide situational awareness and incident monitoring for coordination during special events, weather emergencies, use for historical data retrieval, and to provide real-time advanced analytics

4. Using OpenGrid Who What How
Residents, businesses, community organizations, developers, etc.
What
Free GIS application for which data can be tailored to specific locations and needs (i.e. which city services are delivered on their block, nearby street closures, business licenses, restaurant violations, city activities happening in their communities, and much more).
How
Runs on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices and can be accessed through any web browser. 

5. Introductory Tutorial – Tom Schenk Jr., Chief Data Officer

6. OpenGrid: Benefits
Supports transparency and connects the public to their government, institutions, and each other
Provides situational awareness at block level and communities at large
Flexibility to add new datasets from our City and other open source platforms using Plenar.io
Uses our 311 data as a critical dataset for information, research, and real-time analysis
Adaptable to other cities
Plenario is a centralized hub for open datasets from around the world which are ready to search and download.
Other Cities – If interested in OpenGrid for your city – please feel free to contact our CDO- Tom Schenk Jr. at –