Community Development

Freedom of Information Contact:
Tony Binns
City Hall, Room 1000
121 North LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (312) 744-0986
Fax: (312) 744-2271

Freedom of Information requests should be printed or typed and including the following information: the name, mailing address and daytime phone number of the requester; and a description of the records being requested. Requests can be mailed, faxed or dropped off in person.

The Department of Community Development maintains the following categories of records:

• Affordable Rents for Chicago (ARC) Recipients

• Affordable Requirements Ordinance

• Amount of funds spent in creating

• CDC transcripts and minutes

• Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund Financial Summary

• Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund: Summary of Projects Funded Under the Rental Subsidy Program

• Chicago Partnership for Affordable Neighborhoods

• City Land Recipients/ Developers

• Class 6(b) information

• Community development block grant information

• Data regarding the number of units created

• DCD Commitments and Production Comparison to Plan

• DCD Estimates of Production

• Delegate agency files

• Department marketing materials, including press releases, pamphlets and brochures

• Departmental budget information

• Departmental personnel and payroll records

• Development Project Summaries

• Facade rebate information (program information is available on the City's website

• Files regarding City-owned property

• Financial records of funds provided to partnering organizations

• Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative

• HUD Mark to Market

• Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit Recipients

• Industrial–North/South specific information

• Loan Closings

• Loan/bond information

• Low Income Housing Tax Credit Recipients

• Mortgage Revenue Bond Recipients

• Multi-Family Loan Recipients

• Neighborhood-specific information

• New Homes for Chicago Developments

• Notices, agenda and minutes of monthly Commission on Chicago Landmarks meetings

• Ordinance transmittals

• Records relating to City-sponsored developments and redevelopment agreements

• Redevelopment agreements

• Redevelopment area designation reports, plans and amendments

• SRO Refi/Rehab

• Summary of Developments Approved by City Council

• TIF annual reports

• TIF Assistance Recipients

• TIF Neighborhood Improvement Program Single-family

• TIF redevelopment agreements

• Troubled Buildings Initiative

Please note: records listed on this page may not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.