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Whitman Street Interchange Project

Rockford, Illinois
Let’s remove the Whitman Interchange and open up this 25-acre area for residential and commercial development. It would be replaced with a standard street system that would connect the existing neighborhoods with downtown, Madison Street, the Riv...
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Access to Chicago River from Cumberland Blue Line Station

Chicago, Illinois
The Cumberland Blue Line station is the second to last blue line station from O’hare airport. It is located between a residential neighborhood and the Catherine Chevalier Woods, which is part of the Forest Preserve. On the other si...
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The Hamilton Wiggle

Peoria, Illinois
On a bike, getting down the hill is easy, but going up Main Street is tough. Let's make this tried-and-true method even easier with signs or bike lanes: The Hamilton Wiggle. 1) Start going up the hill in the bike lane on Hamilton Blvd (just a b...
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Terraced Riverfront Park

East Peoria, Illinois
Create a terraced park-like setting for flood control with multi-use areas for several activities such as small boat access, fishing, running, biking, fitness trail, outdoor market, live entertainment, etc. Using a variety of materials for the ter...
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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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B.Y.O.B (Build Your Own Boulevard)

Chicago, Illinois
We are creating a design for one the Chicago Boulevards. We are focusing on increasing the overall appeal of the Boulevard in an eco-friendly manner to encourage people to utilize it for positive purposes.
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Calisthenics Park

Peoria, Illinois
There is not a single fitness park in the State of Illinois south of Aurora. Go to Chicago, Milwaukee, St Louis, or any other city center or its suburbs and fitness parks are everywhere. The "fitness" park at Glen Oak is a joke. A fitness park, es...
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Repair the Continuity of the Street System

Peoria, Illinois
Reconnect the street grid within the area defined by Main Street, Wm. Kumpf Boulevard, & Monroe Street
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Bring Divvy Bikes to Belmont Cragin

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: 36th Ward | CDOT, NWSHC Project Timeframe: Long-term
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Let's Build Parc De L'Ermitage in Downtown Glen Ellyn

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
We should convert the old Giesche Shoes and the adjacent parking lot into a green park with an array of amenities. To honor our French sister city, Le Bouscat, we should seek inspiration from the park in their downtown, Parc De L'Ermitage, which h...
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Improve Pedestrian Infrastructure on Cortland Street

Chicago, Illinois
There has been much discussion about cars, buses, trucks, and bicycles, but not a lot about the pedestrian experience has one walks / runs through (or near) the site. Sidewalks are crumbling, unkept, or not wide enough to comfortably walk without...
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Add a street mural to Augusta & Harvey to make drivers more aware

Oak Park, Illinois
When a driver sees artwork on the roadway, it will make them more aware of their surroundings, focusing on where they are, not just where they are going. This increases the likelihood that conflicts with pedestrians and bicyclists are avoided. The...
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Reconfigure Jefferson 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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Pedestrian Bridge across the river

Peoria, Illinois
The walkway would connect downtown Peoria and East Peoria with a unique feature that could enhance tourist activity and draw more people regularly to the riverfront. It would provide easy access from both sides of the river to the various attracti...
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Relieve the Bottlenecks at Expressway + Chicago River

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Congestion plagues this area. There is a need to increase access into the corridor and through it. Streets like Cortland need to be improved (for cars and bicycles) in order to handle t...
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Riverfront Skate Park

Peoria, Illinois
There's a big community of skateboarders and bikers alike in Peoria. A new park would be a safe spot for kids of all ages to skate instead of using the streets and private properties. The one park in Peoria right now is insufficient without safety...
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Schematic Design Option A

Peoria, Illinois
Review the plan and the imagery used to suggest what specific areas may look like once completed. Decide whether or not to support this option and tell us why.
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Bike Share Rental Stations

Peoria, Illinois
Establish bicycle rental stations in downtown Peoria. This would increase the use of non-vehicular mobility in the downtown.
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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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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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Install additional diagonal streets that run towards the city center

Chicago, Illinois
Circulation towards the center is partially established, but the arteries need extending and developing, and circulation across the city from the northwest to the south and east and from the southwest to the north is lacking
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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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Avondale Riverwalk

Chicago, Illinois
The section of the Chicago River around Avondale is largely unused, and many businesses are lined up along the river. This is problematic as many residents of Avondale wish to have greater access to the River. My idea would be to turn the riverf...
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