data.cityofchicago.org

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Socrata open data portal at data.cityofchicago.org, publishing 2034 public datasets from the publishing organisation, led by the Public Safety category.

Runs on your machine under the source's own terms

The crw MCP on your computer calls data.cityofchicago.org directly. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:

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Capabilities (5)

data-cityofchicago-org/catalog-searchFree, runs locally

Keyword search over the datasets published on data.cityofchicago.org: each hit carries the dataset id, name, description, attribution, category, tags, column names and last update time, plus the total match count.

q?offset?order?only?categories?tags?domain_category?

data-cityofchicago-org/datasetFree, runs locally

The complete metadata document for one dataset: name, description, attribution, licence, category, tags, all column definitions with data types, and the table id used for queries.

data-cityofchicago-org/datasetsFree, runs locally

A page of the portal's own dataset records (id, name, description, category, attribution, creation and update timestamps, view count) without the full column metadata.

offset?order?category?

data-cityofchicago-org/row-countFree, runs locally

One number: how many rows the dataset currently holds, as a SoQL count aggregate.

data-cityofchicago-org/rowsFree, runs locally

The first 100 rows of a dataset as JSON objects keyed by field name. Column names are the API field names, so they can be used directly in a later SoQL query.

Licence

These Terms of Use do not grant anyone any title or right to any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights that the City may have in any of the information, images, software, or processes displayed or used at this website.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/narr/foia/data_disclaimer.html

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attributionText.

Source: data.cityofchicago.org. Dataset attribution as stated by each publishing agency.

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