Shubhanga Satyal, Fall 2026

Chicago Business Mix

Compare the mix of businesses across Chicago's 77 community areas, and see where a type of business makes up a larger or smaller share than it does citywide.

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Chicago Business Mix

About

This tool helps economic development staff, small business owners, and lenders compare business density and mix across Chicago’s 77 community areas, explore potential gaps relative to population, and inform initial decisions. It is an initial visual tool with room for improvement.

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Type of Business
    Community Areas

      AI Use Credit

      I built this tool from our instructor Mjumbe Poe's course examples, videos and readings (Weeks 2–8), and prepared the data myself in ArcGIS Pro. I used Claude and ChatGPT as guides: to explain code, help me debug, review my code, and suggest how to structure the project. AI usage has been an iterative process with back and forth usage.

      Data Sources

      Population and community area data come from the CMAP Community Data Snapshots (CCA_2026). Business locations come from the City of Chicago Business Licenses dataset, and community area boundaries come from the City of Chicago Boundaries - Community Areas dataset, both on the Chicago Data Portal.