Lessons from Chicago: What Can Be Built

Chicago has one of the biggest, oldest, most productive, and most robust civic technology communities in the country. What makes it tick? What does the Windy City have to teach the Twin Cities? Earlier this month, Steve Clift, Laura Andersen, and myself took a two day civic tech field trip to Chicago, with the goal of sharing and learning as much civic tech as we could. The following is the first in a series of posts on what we learned during this trip, and what it made us think about.

Read the rest of this post (which, unfortunately, never became a series) at Open Twin Cities.