Neither MSNBC nor EveryBlock released specifics about the price of the acquisition, but the site's founder, Adrian Holovaty, and his team will remain based in Chicago. According to MSNBC.com's president Charlie Tillinghast, EveryBlock will remain an independent brand, though MSNBC will surely try to integrate some of EveryBlock's data into the main MSNBC.com site, which doesn't feature a lot of local news at this point.

Local EveryBlock sites are currently available for Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. While a number of other companies, including Outside.in, for example, also aggregate local news from blogs and mainstream news sources, EveryBlock stands out because of how well it displays local information from public records. For example, the site aggregates data about everything from building permits and police calls to liquor license status changes and excavation permits - data that is generally hidden away on government websites that are often hard to navigate.

EveryBlock's source code is freely available under the GPL license. The site was built on top of the Django framework.