15-minute Chicago: libraries & parks
Every Chicago public library and Park District field house on one map, each with a ~15-minute (≈1.2 km) straight-line walk-shed. Search your address to find the nearest — or scroll down to see how much of each community area sits within a short walk of one.
Who lives within a short walk?
The share of each community area’s parcels within a ~1.2 km straight-line walk of a library or field house. Greener is better-served. This is the same straight-line measure as the circles above, so it overstates real walking access.
Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods
How to read this map
The dots are public libraries (blue) and Park District field houses (orange). Toggle the ~15-minute walk-sheds to see the straight-line coverage, and search your address for the nearest of each. The choropleth below rolls that coverage up to the 77 community areas as the share of parcels within a walk-shed.
Straight-line, not routed. A 1.2 km circle crosses the Chicago River, the rail embankments, and the expressways as if they were walkable — they are not — so both the circles and the choropleth overstate real walking access. Network walk-time isochrones are the planned upgrade.
Park acreage per resident would be a richer measure, but the Park District field-house feed carries no acreage and there is no community-area population source wired yet, so it isn’t shown rather than estimated. Source: Chicago Public Library + Chicago Park District (open data). See methodology for the walk-shed definition and coverage details.