Look at Cook

Explore Cook County's (in Illinois, US) budget from 1993 to 2015 and learn how the money is being spent.

Look at Cook visualizes the city budget and provides interactive tools for citizens to break down annual expenditures. It also enables comparisons between budgets and expenditures. The goal is to help answer the common question, “Where exactly does our money go?”

  • Visualization of annual data about the money budgeted and spent in Cook County using interactive diagrams.
  • Breakdown the budget by how it’s being used (public safety fund, health fund, etc.) or by the agent who controls it.
  • Enables comparisons between different years as well as between different funds.
  • Cook Country, Illinois, United States