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Riverfront Sculpture Garden

Peoria, Illinois
Establish a Sculpture Garden for large scale outdoor sculptures to enhance the public art and culture of Peoria. My suggestion is that this be a large park with plenty of green-space for multi-use purpose but includes these large outdoor sculptur...

Create a Parking Management Plan

Peoria, Illinois
A survey of Tri-County residents revealed a perception that parking is the most important downtown problem, the reality is that there are a very large number of parking spaces, both public & private, located in both structured & surface parking lo...
parking policy governance infrastructure street building

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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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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Rooftop Development

Peoria, Illinois
Provide roof top environments. Either through restaurant seating or residential terraces.
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Transforming Concrete Puddle to a Sustainable Oasis

Chicago, Illinois
UIC has a hidden gem of a green space – but it is under-utilized due to limited seating, accessibility, and stormwater flooding issues. Help realize our vision of a sustainable, revitalized campus to build a stormwater-reducing patio, increase bio...
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Revitalize Northeast Patio at the Merchandise Mart

Chicago, Illinois
The paved seating area outside of the northeast entrance into the Merchandise Mart needs a refresh. New seating, improved landscaping, and even some sort of programming (ex: pop-up shop, food stand) could make this corner special instead of forget...
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Expanded Arts & Cultural Activities

Peoria, Illinois
Build upon existing events and programs such as the Peoria Art Guild Fine Art Fair, Big Picture Festival, Sculpture Walk Peoria, etc. and Peoria's unique cultural heritage to create new arts and cultural events and programs that celebrate the dive...
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Enhance pedestrian & bicycle safety along Dundee Road

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Dundee Road is a major corridor that carries thousands of cars each day. Given that the road is currently oriented towards automobiles, it isn’t friendly for pedestrians and bicyclists who cite safety concerns or avoid it altogether. Increasing sa...
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North Lawndale's Yellow Brick Road

Chicago, Illinois
CCA’s food forest, PermaPark, needs a walkway to create a more inviting space, direct traffic flow through the forest, create a chill space for people to hang out and to demonstrate sustainable methods of building.
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Reverse Vending Machine for recycling plastic containers

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Reverse Vending Machine is an automated method for collecting, sorting and handling the return of used beverage containers for recycling or reuse.100% of containers redeemed at reverse vending machines are recycled into new packaging compared to a...
preservation public-space

Low Line

Peoria, Illinois
Extend the riverfront trail into the heart of the Warehouse District through the May Street corridor to tie the District and the Riverfront together. Drainage tiles installed beneath the permeable trail extension can be run directly to the river. ...
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Encourage In-fill along Fulton and Main Streets

Peoria, Illinois
In-fill development built up to the right-of-way can bring definition and activity to the corridors.
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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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Riverfront Water Feature

Peoria, Illinois
Create an Attraction
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Invest in Placemaking

Washington, Illinois
Creating memorable experiences in Washington is a smart way to attract increased investment - more visitors spending more time and money within the community
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Restoring Community Through the Boulevards

Chicago, Illinois
We want to better utilize this section of the boulevard to create a public meeting space. A space to be used for festivals, neighborhood restorative dialogues, peace keeping and as a demonstration of environmental responsibility for our neighborhood.

Permanently remove beg buttons at crosswalks to improve walkability & prevent spread of COVID-19

Oak Park, Illinois
“Beg buttons” are located on traffic signal light polls and, when pressed by a pedestrian, trigger an eventual walk signal. Besides the fact that they prioritize car movement over pedestrian movement (drivers have no equal task), they require a pe...
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Public Open Space Along the River

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Include clean and safe park space adjacent to the Chicago River for passive and recreation purposes. Collaborative art and music spaces could find a place here too.
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Train Museum

Peoria, Illinois
Posted on behalf of citizen per request.
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Forest Preserve Accessibility

Chicago, Illinois
The site that this project would improve is the Schiller Woods forest preserve. The park has multiple trails and other programs but the main issue is that it is hard to find and enter. This idea is to put a map to the park in the nearby bus statio...
transit public-space park

Halloween Parade

Peoria, Illinois
Create the first, first-annual Warehouse District celebration. Engage the art community to build Halloween parade floats. The only rule for the floats is there are no rules for what constitutes a float. It would be a family-friendly version of bur...
event park public-space land-use

Build a New Street within the Warehouse District

Peoria, Illinois
Transform an existing service alley into New Street, lined with storefronts and galleries.
retail walking preservation public-space land-use infrastructure street building

West Pullman Park

Chicago, Illinois
The park is not being kept up and the violence has gotten out of hand. Often times, parents are scared to let their kids go out to the park. Also, the trash makes the park look dingy. If the park continues down this road, there will not be a park ...
park public-space public-safety