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Thursday, April 25
CityPayments.org is "a database of all vendors, contracts, and payments that have been posted by the municipal government of the City of Chicago to the Vendor, Contract, and Payment Search lookup tool maintained by the Department of Procurement Services." It was created by Dan O'Neil of EveryBlock and Harper Reed of Threadless. Best part? You can flag things as "goofy."