Libraries - 2015 Visitors by Location

The Chicago Public Library has more than 70 locations. The Chicago Public Library consists of the Harold Washington Library Center, Sulzer and Woodson regional libraries and over 70 neighborhood branches. Many locations experience sporadic emergency closures due to heating or air conditioning issues, or area power outages. Independence Branch closed due to a fire on 10/30/15.

• Count does not reflect the total building visitor count due to location of traffic counter. Community room and program traffic are not included in totals.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cityofchicago/libraries-2015-visitors-by-location-7imc-umy4\".\"libraries_2015_visitors_by_location\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.