Over the past four years, Chicago Cityscape has been collecting maps that intersect Chicago in some way. The collection has expanded to Cook County and eventually integrated maps of places all over Illinois.
There are now tens of thousands of maps in our Maps Explorer and in that process the site has gathered quite the group of maps that show where property owners can get financial incentives.
These incentives areas are displayed in a new easy-to-read table called Incentives Checker. Every time one of our members looks up an Address Snapshot report, the site looks for any of 19 local, county, state, and federal financial and development incentives available at that address.
Incentives Checker compares your lookup location against the well-known Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts and state Enterprise Zones, but they also include the Chicago Housing Authority’s “mobility areas” (of interest to landlords), New Markets Tax Credits, and Opportunity Investment Fund areas, among others.
Cityscape is ready to expand beyond showing only financial incentives and other mapped areas in our home state.
We’re starting to add geospatial information for Indiana and looking for feedback on the kind of locally and regionally-specific data and maps you’d like to see.
This week our Opportunity Zones map grew to include the thousands of eligible Census Tracts nationwide.
While Chicago Cityscape checks off the boxes for which incentives apply to any given address, the website also helps with site selection.
