We're incredibly excited to announce the first MoveSmart.org tool/widget: the 'MoveSmart this page' button. Drop it into your blog or website and provide visitors with links to opportunity maps of any geographies mentioned on the page that also appear on MoveSmart.org. This currently includes more than 500 places across 7 counties - zip codes, municipalities, neighborhoods, and community areas across Chicagoland; see a complete list of non-zip code geographies on MoveSmart.org.
There will be multiple versions of the button, and today we're just launching just the first. The first version will automatically disappear when there are no results; the second version will always display and expand to say "no results could be found".
Grab the embed code here (disappears on no results): Or here (always displays, returns 'no results'):
We'll be adding more places, such as police beats, wards, more municipalities, and any other geography you request (and we can find data about) in the coming weeks. Comments and feedback are strongly encouraged.
Many thanks to volunteer developer Eric Cooper and lead developer Bec White, who managed to throw this together in record time, and designer Cece Yu, who made it look awesome.
Disclaimer: this is a brand-new feature and you may find a bug or two; please let us know if you have any troubles.
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We're incredibly excited to announce the first MoveSmart.org tool/widget: the 'MoveSmart this page' button. Drop it into your blog or website and provide visitors with links to opportunity maps of any geographies mentioned on the page that also appear on MoveSmart.org. This currently includes more than 500 places across 7 counties - zip codes, municipalities, neighborhoods, and community areas across Chicagoland; 
