Welcome to the Chicago Area Geographic Information Study (CAGIS)

This is the home page for the Chicago Area Geographic Information Study,, a unit within the Geography Program and Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Information regarding undergraduate and graduate programs in geography at UIC is available at the Anthropology Department website.

Data Sources and Links
Spatial Data Chicago Region Clearinghouse Cooperative. Download TIGER Line Files, Chicago Region GIS and Data Catalog	2000 Census data for the Chicago area (Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission)
UIC GIS Activities Involving CAGIS UICGIS Listserv, '99 Faculty Camp GIS Presentations, Interactive Thematic Mapping Demo (Chicago Tracts)	Census & Other Demographic Data 1990 Census Data for Chicago Community Areas and Census Tracts

On Friday June 6th 2003 the Office of Management and Budget released the list of revised definitions of Metropolitan Areas, and new definitions of Micropolitan and Combined Statistical Areas. The list of areas can be obtained by going to: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ Go to "Bulletins" (on the left hand side of the page under "Information for Agencies") and then at the bottom of the announcement, Bulletin 03-04, there is the link to the PDF Attachment. This direct link works for now.

New definitions for Chicago include:
176 Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area
Kankakee-Bradley, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area
Michigan City-La Porte, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area
16980 Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area
Principal Cities: Chicago, IL; Naperville, IL; Joliet, IL; Gary, IN; Elgin, IL; Arlington Heights, IL; Schaumburg, IL; Evanston, IL; Skokie, IL; Des Plaines, IL
16974 Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division
Cook County, DeKalb County, DuPage County, Grundy County, Kane County, Kendall County, McHenry County, Will County
29404 Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metropolitan Division
Lake County, IL; Kenosha County, WI
23844 Gary, IN Metropolitan Division
Jasper County, Lake County, Newton County, Porter County

~~State Data Center questions should be referred to sdc@cagis.uic.edu. Address Clearinghouse and Data Catalog inquiries to clearing@cagis.uic.edu or catalog@cagis.uic.edu.~~
Requests for information on the Geography graduate program should be addressed to Kathleen Rizzo.

JOBS IN GEOGRAPHY!

For Gis Job Openings try the GIS Jobs Clearinghouse at the University of Minnesota.

16-Aug-02 What's New

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