This repo is a grab-bag of various scripts, snippets, and tools for working with assorted systems and data in Chicago. Feel free to dig around and see if there's anything useful to you.

The 311 directory contains assorted scripts for working with 311-related data, largely extracted from Chicago's data portal (data.cityofchicago.org).

The nightlyserver directory contains two scripts which can, together, be used to create an Open311 server from Chicago's reporting database (which is updated nightly). The reporting database is restricted access; you'll need to be on the city's internal network or VPN to use it.

The collector portion should be run on a computer that has access to the reporting database; it is a simple script that gathers all the service requests created or updated over a given time period and sends them off to your Open311 server (the server portion detailed below) to later be formatted and served as Open311 data.

The server portion can be run anywhere and does not require access to the city's reporting database. The collector above gathers data from the reporting database and sends it to this server, which is a Python Flask app that uses MongoDB as its backend. Simply configure and run it by doing:

python app.py