Community Medicine Residents: Demographic Data & Neighborhood Plans

The Community Area Health Inventory summarizes data from many sources and represents the cumulative effort of the Epidemiology Program, the Office of HIV/AIDS Surveillance, the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program, the Tuberculosis Program, and the Lead Program.

Community-specific demographic information

City of Chicago Public Health Agenda, Newsletters, Reports (Annual, Obesity, CPS Students), Policy Briefs, Services, Support Information.

A variety of statistics and surveillance reports - births, critical services, HIV, Behavioral Risks, Flu, Leading Causes of Death

"A Profile of Health and Health Resources within Chicago’s 77 Communities describes the health status and availability of resources that promote health within Chicago’s 77 community areas." This report uses 2010 Census data.

Yonek, J., Hasnain-Wynia, R. A Profile of Health and Health Resources within Chicago’s 77 Communities. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Center for Healthcare Equity/Institute for Healthcare Studies, 2011

Data are included for all the objectives and subgroups identified in the Healthy People 2010.

From the website -Embedded in LISC’s founding, and strengthened over the last two decades, we are committed to comprehensive community planning. This planning process is essential to building the local capacity to effectively connect to the right resources to achieve fundamental change and long-lasting results in our communities.

LISC Chicago’s comprehensive community development efforts center on:

Quality-of-Life planning
Housing development
Youth programming
Creative placemaking

"This website aims to help engage people in a discussion of both the positive and negative effects of change witnessed in Chicago's neighborhoods since the 1970s, with attention given to vulnerable lower-income communities."