Overview
In 2023, the Illinois Attorney General's Office released the results of its 5-year investigation into child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in Illinois. Imaginary Landscape was engaged by the Attorney General to design the 696-page report and create an accompanying website.
Objectives
- Create the aesthetic design for the report
- Transform component documents and spreadsheets into a cohesive report
- Create data visualizations
- Build an accompanying website for ease of access
- Deploy at the time of the press conference
- Monitor results and report in real time
An excerpt of the 696-page report.
Approach
- Create an overall design theme, including colors, photographic imagery and layout
- Normalize data spreadsheets from each of the six dioceses
- Build an accompanying website to promote keyword searching and related content
- Test and deploy on dotCMS framework
- Coordinate release to coincide with press conference
- Configure Google Analytics GA4 to measure usage and downloads
The accompanying website designed for full screen and mobile users.
Results
Within 24-hours of the press conference, 31,104 people visited the website, spending an average of 5 minutes, 28 seconds on the site. In addition 6,668 reports were downloaded.
Imaginary was insturmental in our ability to present these findings by producing a world-class report and website.
- Thomas Verticchio, Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General