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@bobweston we have a fix deployed for this. Could you try again?

OR ... we could just embed the totals in the [geojson file](https://github.com/derekeder/chicago-breadwinners/blob/master/data/chicago_CBSA_tracts.js) defining the tracts. That would probably be the easiest thing to do to get it working.

This Forbes viz of American Migration patterns came to mind as inspiration: http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html Shows people moving from county to county over years (turn the lines off to get a better...

@fgregg this is a great idea. Were you thinking of just linking straight to the source PDFs or doing OCR on their contents? The page you linked to looks pretty...

cool. do you want me to pick this up now or wait until you're back?

@red-bin heyo! I'd love to meet with you and the Triibe folks about this. Can you email me at [email protected]?

we don't quite have enough detail right now from the lobbying disclosure data to make explicit links from Lobbyists to bills or alders, but we could make the request to...

we have this in place now in the `extras` field of `billversion` as `summary`. I'll work on displaying on the front end

if we want to improve the quality of the legislative summary, @antidipyramid mentioned it might be helpful to use https://github.com/explosion/spaCy

Low hanging fruit for this one would be to link to the Illinois Sunshine committee pages for each alder.