City of Chicago

Chicago Cooling Centers

The City of Chicago publishes locations and operational details for designated public cooling centers during periods of oppressive summer heat. Each record includes the center's name, address, hours of operation, and contact information.

Example records
NamebrandAlternate NameroleCityaddressStateaddressZIP CodeaddressStreet AddressaddressPhonephone numberHours Of OperationtemporalLocationgeospatial
25th DistrictPolice DistrictChicagoIL606395555 W Grand Ave312-746-8605POINT (-87.76463 41.91839)
24th DistrictPolice DistrictChicagoIL606266464 N Clark St312-744-5907POINT (-87.67177 42.00019)
22nd DistrictPolice DistrictChicagoIL606431900 W Monterey Ave312-745-0570POINT (-87.66887 41.69202)
Use cases

Neighborhood Coverage Gap Analysis for Municipal Services

A civic technology firm building a heat vulnerability index for insurers or public health clients maps cooling center locations against census tract demographics to identify ZIP codes with high elderly or low-income populations that lack nearby access to public cooling facilities.

ZIP CodeLocationStreet AddressAlternate Name

Verifying Physical Presence of Government-Affiliated Locations

A KYB analyst onboarding a vendor that claims to operate out of a Chicago government facility cross-references the vendor's stated address against known public buildings in this dataset to confirm the address corresponds to a real, government-designated site rather than a fictitious or mail-drop location.

Street AddressZIP CodeNameAlternate NameLocation

Phone Number Validation Against Known Government Lines

A fraud operations team at a fintech company flags inbound calls or account applications using phone numbers that match government facility lines, helping distinguish legitimate government-affiliated contacts from spoofed numbers used in social engineering schemes.

PhoneNameStreet AddressZIP Code
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