Mayor Lori Lightfoot's proposal would merge the city's IT agency with the department that manages vehicles and buildings, which the city's former chief data officer called a…

Schenk oversaw a city data division that encouraged open data use, built tools to automate government functions, and helped nurture a sidewalk-level network of Internet of Things…

The city's IT department is poised to post its "OpenGrid" software to Amazon Web Services' servers, where any government can download and use it for free.