What works in Chicago
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Evidence snapshot for Chicago
Chicago has demonstrated multiple evidence-based approaches to public-sector efficiency and equity. Chicago's food inspection forecasting model used machine learning to catch 69% of critical violations in the first half of inspection schedules versus 55% under standard practice, detecting problems roughly 7.5 days earlier. Array of Things deployed an open-source sensor network across Chicago beginning in 2016 to measure street-level environmental and traffic data, with documented engineering performance though weaker evidence on downstream policy impact. These initiatives reflect Chicago's adoption of data-driven and open-source approaches to urban governance, though quantified policy outcomes beyond the food-safety domain are not demonstrated in the available evidence.
Drawn from: Chicago's Food Inspection Forecasting Model — Ranking Restaurants by Violation Risk to Catch Problems Sooner · U.S. Soccer's $24M Equal-Pay Settlement and Identical Collective Bargaining Agreements (2022) · Array of Things — Chicago's Open-Source Urban Sensor Network
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Transparency, fairness & accountability +46 pts 100 here · 54 average
Innovation +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +23 pts 83 here · 60 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Weaknesses
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -90 pts 0 here · 90 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Chicago. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
U.S. Soccer's $24M Equal-Pay Settlement and Identical Collective Bargaining Agreements (2022) · 74
Array of Things — Chicago's Open-Source Urban Sensor Network · 71
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more