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Press & data kit

Civic Worth for newsrooms — Columbus & Chicago

Everything a reporter, editor, or civic-data desk needs to write about — or with — Civic Worth: company boilerplate, downloadable fact sheets and brand assets, how we source the data, and maps you can embed with a single snippet. Verified newsrooms and 501(c)(3) organizations get free access — apply at /newsrooms.

Time-sensitive · nominations due Sept 28, 2026Opportunity Zones 2.0 kit — story summaries, the eligible-tract map, and the embeddable tract widget

About Civic Worth (boilerplate)

Civic Worth is a civic-data platform that resolves any address in Columbus (Franklin County) or Chicago (Cook County) to its parcel and joins federal, state, county, and city public records — Census, EPA, USDOT, county assessors, and city permit, zoning, and 311 systems — into one sourced page. Every figure is stamped with where it came from and when. The free tier returns a parcel-resolved civic summary in under a second; deeper reports add zoning, valuation, environmental, and representation detail. The premise is that public records should be legible to the public, so distribution runs through the newsrooms and community organizations residents already read.

Civic Worth is not affiliated with the City of Columbus, Columbus City Council, or any campaign.

Coverage figures below are public-records aggregates as of 2026-08-09; each links to the page where you can verify it.

Columbus, Ohio

Franklin County

Parcels resolved (Franklin County)
493,368
Neighborhood pages
19
City Council districts
9
ZIP-code place pages
40
Interactive civic maps
23

Chicago, Illinois

Cook County

Parcels resolved (Cook County)
1,862,671
Community areas
77
City Council wards
50
Zoning-district families explained
9
Building-permit records (both metros)
566,513
311 service requests (both metros)
2,262,055
Joined public-records sources
50+

Free for verified newsrooms & nonprofits

Civic Worth grants every verified newsroom and 501(c)(3) organization free access to the paid reports and the embeddable maps — no fee. Verification is a single application that confirms you operate a newsroom or non-profit; approved partners are credited by name in any widget they embed, and co-published embeds can link back to the partner’s own article.

Apply for the verified tier →Read the verified-tier policy

City fact sheets (downloadable)

One-line, sourced figures for each metro — parcel counts, civic geography, and platform totals — every number linked to the page where you can verify it. Plain Markdown, ready to paste.

Columbus fact sheet ↓Chicago fact sheet ↓

Brand assets

The Civic Worth mark, wordmark lockups, and a one-page usage sheet. Please don’t recolor or distort the mark; the usage sheet covers clear space and color. SVG preferred; PNG provided for tools that need raster.

  • Horizontal lockup

    Mark + wordmark, side by side — the default in a byline or footer.

    SVG ↓PNG ↓

  • Stacked lockup

    Mark above the wordmark — for square or narrow placements.

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  • Primary mark

    The plat mark on its own, full color.

    SVG ↓PNG ↓

  • Monochrome mark (ink)

    Single-ink mark for print and one-color contexts.

    SVG ↓PNG ↓

  • Reversed mark (navy)

    For placement on light navy or muted backgrounds.

    SVG ↓PNG ↓

  • Brand usage sheet

    One-pager: colors, clear space, and do / don’t usage.

    SVG ↓PNG ↓

How we source the data

Written for the civic-data desk that wants to cite us with confidence. Every number on the platform is a public-records aggregate joined to the parcel, labeled with its source and date — and where a source is not yet live, we say so rather than imply coverage we don’t have.

How to credit Civic Worth

Using our data in a story or embed? A visible credit that links back is all we ask — and it is how readers (and search engines) find the source. Copy a line:

Web (HTML — the link is the credit)Data: <a href="https://civicworth.com">Civic Worth</a>Renders as: Data: Civic Worth
Print / broadcastData: Civic Worth (civicworth.com)

For a specific figure, link the exact page it came from (the parcel, map, or ZIP page) rather than the homepage — that is where the reader can verify it.

Press contact

Story questions, data requests, or interview requests: [email protected]. Partnership and embed setup: [email protected].

Press-kit copy and fact-sheet figures are licensed CC-BY-4.0 — quote or paste with a link to civicworth.com. Brand assets are licensed for editorial use to identify Civic Worth; the embeddable maps are licensed for unlimited use by verified newsrooms and 501(c)(3) organizations under Civic Worth’s verified-tier policy.