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Gourmet Food Truck Courtyard

Peoria, Illinois
Infrastructure for a food truck courtyard could enable a variety of food to be served in the area with ability to move structures easily if flooding occurred. Perhaps this would have to be adjacent to the park, depending on the development guideli...
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Main Street Configured as a Boulevard

Peoria, Illinois
This would include new in-fill projects designed to complete the street wall with pedestrian-friendly frontage increase both interest and pedestrian comfort. The addition of trees in the median will help bring the streetscape down to a more human ...
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Welcome to Peoria signage

Peoria, Illinois
Its time to update our "Welcome to" signage with modern signage and technology that incorporates the cities new logo. This should be developed along with a way finding program for downtown. These should be placed at key access points into town. Fi...
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CTA Brownline L

Chicago, Illinois
Bring a new CTA Brown Line L station to Division Street.
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Add bus stop shelters along streets in Oak Park's residential areas to increase ridership

Oak Park, Illinois
Well-designed bus stop shelters will make more people aware of the opportunity to ride the bus and protect would-be riders from the elements. The shelters would include a concrete pad that would connect to the existing sidewalk/ramp. The roof and ...
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Near North Neighborhood Survey

Chicago, Illinois
Hello Near North! We are O Development Group - we develop high impact real estate in response to specific community opportunities. Before deciding on a property's highest and best use, we want to engage the community. Our team will use technology ...
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Extend the 606/Bloomingdale Trail to Connect to East Riverbank and Cortland

Chicago, Illinois
Connecting this site into the 606 was suggested by a couple other people in comments on other ideas, so I'm adding it since it's a great idea on its own. The Bloomingdale Trail could be extended east over the Chicago River to connect with a new ri...
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Enhance trails & bicycle paths that connect residents to parks

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Connectivity and accessibility to the Buffalo Grove’s parks is critical to maintaining a high quality of life. Enhancement of trails and bike paths is important to accomplishing this goal.
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Build a Merchandise Mart Riverwalk

Chicago, Illinois
Given the current construction of Phase 3, the last of the planned riverwalk expansions on the southern edge of the central branch, let's start thinking about the possibilities on the north side. Although there are several riverwalk segments for ...
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CLEAN AIR: more trees in parks and less heavy through-traffic on residential streets

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Recent developments in Buffalo Grove seem to go against our most vital resource - clean air! Too many trees cut down, and quiet residential streets, where our children should be able to play safe and happy, look now like mini highways, ridden with...
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Start Treating Bike Share as Mass Transit

Columbus, Ohio
Bike share is often overlooked as a form of mass transit. We know that a large portion of Americans view biking as a fun, recreational activity. Yet, we should begin to think outside of this conventional box. Bike share can increase the flexib...
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Develop a Southern Gateway Neighborhood Center at Adams Street & Western Avenue

Peoria, Illinois
Develop this intersection as a major neighborhood center.
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Wayfinding

Peoria, Illinois
Provide adequate wayfinding throughout the downtown for pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The signage should be attractive, comprehensive, uniform, and easily update-able! The goal of the wayfinding would be to improve the movement of people aroun...
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Tourism & Cultural Economic Development

Chicago, Illinois
Join us as we discuss the opportunities and developments taking place on the South Side under the broader umbrella of Tourism and how we can use "Cultural Economic Development" to socially and economically develoment pur communities.
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Reconfigure Adams Street for Two-way Traffic with On-street Parking

Peoria, Illinois
Although one way streets can smooth traffic flows, they allow traffic to speed up to the point where the street becomes increasingly hostile to pedestrians. At the same time, the one-way streets make local access within the grid more difficult by ...
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Make Augusta safer for pedestrians and bicyclists

Oak Park, Illinois
Aggressive drivers make Augusta a dangerous street to walk and bike along. Near misses have involved kids and their guardians as they travel to and from Whittier Elementary and Dole Library. While crossing guards and police monitoring help, they a...
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Add decorative features to the streetscape

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Add additional streetscape elements that make a more pleasant and interesting place for people to walk and spend time. This could include public art, plantings, unique seating and lighting.
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Land based Casino

Peoria, Illinois
I believe competition is healthy and a land based casino and hotel will enhance the community and the surrounding areas.
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Movie night under the bridge

Peoria, Illinois
This idea includes projecting a movie onto the concrete support structures under the bridge. People could bring blankets and chairs to watch in the moonlight.
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Create gateway signage on major entryways to the community

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: 31st & 36th Wards Project Timeframe: Mid-term
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Add bicycle lanes

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Create an east-west route through downtown and elsewhere.
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Work with CDOT & Streets and Sanitation

Chicago, Illinois
Work with CDOT, Streets and Sanitation, and the Alderman on a regular basis to address the identified locations
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Museum campus transportation

Chicago, Illinois
Utilize chicago's greatest feature lake michigan. there are multiple harbors on both the north side (evanston, montrose, etc) and south side (new 31st harbor, jackson, etc). also infrastructure already is in place along the chicago river encoura...

Crowdsource energy efficiency ideas

Peoria, Illinois
Great ideas live throughout the community and are often the brainchild of users. Methods to improve energy efficiency are no exception. Crowdsourcing is a tool used to tap into the brainpower of a group of people, rather than turning to industry e...
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