2nd City Zoning is an interactive map that lets you:

find out how your building is zoned

learn where to locate your business

explore zoning patterns throughout the city

To make Chicago's zoning code digestible by humans, we took inspiration from one of our favorite games: Sim City 2000.

It started with the color scheme: green for residential, blue for commercial and yellow for industrial. (This oversimplifies things a bit, read the full story.)

From there we got a little carried away. Graphics, sounds, music, oh my.

We had a lot of fun making this, so dive in and explore!

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