Profitwise News and Views

January 2004 Issue

• Chicago Community Ventures Launches Community Development GIS Website
• Around the District
• Savings Account Usage by Low- and Moderate-Income People in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
• A Discussion and Display of Innovations: The Second Annual Illinois Asset-Building Conference
• Beyond Financial Education: Changing Financial Behavior A Portfolio of Applied Research Projects
• An Informed Discussion of the Earned Income Tax Credit—Milwaukee
• Calendar of Events
• January 2004 Issue (PDF,209KB)

In Brief

Chicago Community Ventures Launches Community Development GIS Website
Chicago Community Ventures (CCV) has launched a new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Website, Chicago Prospector.

Chicago Prospector is a market analysis tool and commercial real estate selection service that uses GIS technology. It provides in-depth demographic reports and business analyses for Chicago's Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, Renewal Communities (EZ/EC/RC), and surrounding low-income areas.

Chicago Prospector is a free research tool for economic and community development organizations, real estate professionals, and business owners. Information is readily available on Chicago's EZ/EC/RC and low-income areas including population, ethnicity, household income, consumer expenditures, work force statistics, education attainment, plus much more-all at one comprehensive Website.

The Website also displays information on the incentives that are available for businesses located in the EZ/EC/RC as well as in Tax Increment Financing Zones.

Chicago Prospector was designed to be user-friendly displaying information on an interactive map. Users are able to select a specific neighborhood or choose a radius around a specific address to easily access the data in which they are most interested. CCV is providing this new service as another method to promote and support economic and community development in Chicago's low-income areas.

For more information, please call 773-822-0318. The Website can be accessed at www.chicagoprospector.org.