Towed Vehicles

This dataset displays location for vehicles that have been towed and impounded by the City of Chicago within the last 90 days. Illegally parked vehicles, abandoned vehicles and vehicles used for illegal activities may be towed by the Chicago Police Department, the Department of Streets and Sanitation, the Department of Revenue, Aviation and the office of the City Clerk. After a tow request is issued, an inventory number is assigned by the Department of Streets and Sanitation and a truck is dispatched to tow the requested vehicle to a City auto pound. Disclaimer: This dataset includes vehicles towed or relocated by the City of Chicago; it does not include vehicles towed by a private towing company.

Background Information:

Auto Pound Locations (http://j.mp/kG5sgF).

Tow Process Overview (http://j.mp/lfBOEP).

Common Towing Questions (http://j.mp/imFYlp).

Parking and Standing Violations (http://j.mp/ifW8Uj).

Related Applications: Find Your Vehicle (http://j.mp/lWn0S7).

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/towed-vehicles-ygr5-vcbg\".\"towed_vehicles\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.