CDPH Environmental Asbestos and Demolition Notification contains Notices of Intent for demolition and asbestos abatement submitted to the City of Chicago. The data covers work started from January 1993 to December 31, 2011, managed by the Department of Environment, and work beginning on or after January 1, 2012, managed by the Chicago Department of Public Health. The dataset is published by the City of Chicago on the datagov platform.
Use Cases
- Track regulatory compliance for asbestos abatement based on mandatory notification filings.
- Analyze trends in demolition activity over time based on the 1993-2011 date range.
- Study the administrative transition of environmental oversight based on the transfer from DOE to CDPH in 2012.
Strengths
- Covers a long temporal range from 1993 onward.
- Documents a specific regulatory process mandated by the Chicago Municipal Code.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and JSON.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Chicago
- Collection Method
- Mandatory Notices of Intent submitted to the Department of Environment and later the Chicago Department of Public Health.
- Time Range
- 1993 to 2011 (DOE period), and from 2012 onward (CDPH period).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-15 03:02:44.909479; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- City of Chicago, Illinois, USA.