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Pocket Park: Calumet Fisheries Environs

Chicago, Illinois
The Calumet Fisheries Environs is an open plot of abandoned land behind the famous Calumet Fishery shack. Unlike most restaurants, this store's customers buy their smoked fish and french fries inside the shack and proceed to eat in their cars. The...
water park land-use

Citizen-Sourced Problem Solving

Peoria, Illinois
Our City faces a number of difficult challenges, including those in the realms of infrastructure, economic opportunity, and community well-being. The municipal government works to address these challenges through its programs on a daily basis, but...
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Changing North Lawndale Neighborhood

Chicago, Illinois
Hi my name is diamond, and i think we should change north lawndale neighborhood. the reason why i think we should change north lawndale neighborhood is because its very nasty over there and we need more stuff. we need more clubs around here there'...
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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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Park(ing) Deck

Peoria, Illinois
Decrease the cost of multiple projects and increase neighborhood vitality by combining diverse amenities into one project. The Park(ing) Deck places a green roof top of needed Warehouse District parking decks, providing protection from sun, sn...
cso transit public-space park land-use infrastructure housing building

CAPS Meetings

Chicago, Illinois
Attend CAPS meetings regularly and build relationships with officers.
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The Open Fields of Austin Area

Chicago, Illinois
The austin area is located on the westside of chicago,illinois, it is one of the largest areas by population and there are a lot of students coming from here to our school. there are a lot of open fields that can be use for stuff. like some field...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods

Civic ArtWorks

Plainfield, Illinois
We are a neighborhood building company made up of planners, designers, educators & technologists that create tools that empower citizens to play an active role in making positive change happen in the places they love. We do this by improving the w...

Build Nicer Transit Shelters and Stations to Attract More Riders

Columbus, Ohio
Evidence suggests that transit stations with sleeker designs boost ridership. A recent study out of the University of Naples compared ridership on two similar lines, only one of which had colorful, recently-redesigned stations. The researchers ...
forge-ahead

Build UP Roseland

Chicago, Illinois
We would like to give the neighborhood a safe fun space to express themselves, a place to learn new people and things. This would solve the problem that is not having a community center or place to go besides the Roseland library.
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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 ...
bicycling building infrastructure land-use public-space street transit walking heart-of-peoria-plan infill

Rock Climbing Wall Utilizing Public/Private Structures Already In Place

Peoria, Illinois
Chattanooga, TN, in cooperation with private and public enterprises, turned currently existing structures in their downtown area into a world class rock climbing destination. We have a lot of private buildings downtown, as well as existing (new an...
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Attract Investors to Build a Plastics Recycling Operation in Peoria

Peoria, Illinois
The proposed budget for 2020 paints a grim picture of the market for plastics, despite a 10% increase in Peoria residents using curbside recycling. Multi-national corporations, such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, are trying to get to 100% rec...

Make the Park Near the Cumberland Blue Line Station More Accessible

River Grove, Illinois
I chose the Cumberland Blue Line Station area as my site to improve. The Blue Line Station is massive; there are 1600 parking spaces available, and it is near O’Hare International Airport. It’s also near the Des Plaines River, which winds through ...
water walking park

EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge

Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, US Green Building Council - Illinois, and Civic ArtWorks are working together to support Chicago-area students in developing projects that answer the question: “How do you ma...

Peoria Public Market

Peoria, Illinois
Establish an indoor public market in downtown Peoria with food and market vendor stalls.
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Promoting Waste Management by Reducing School Usage

Chicago, Illinois
We want to inform our peers on the importance of recycling and wasting food. Our group will mimic a recycling and compost method that we searched which is effective and put forth the effort to establish it in Brooks. Hopefully if they become habit...
building recycling compost waste-management

Mr. Dad's Father's Club (Free Plants)

Chicago, Illinois
This will help build our community and show we are here to stand together. This will be a wonderful day to give back. Some plants will be donated to the Garden on 51st Calumet and the rest will be donated to the community on behalf of our Mr. Dad...
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Laser Light Shows

Have laser light show projected from tops of downtown Peoria buildings (similar to what they do in Hong Kong) with music and narration. It would attract a lot of attention to Peoria. Businesses could fund it in return for mention of their business...
tourism

Replace old k-mart at bell and 159th with appropriate development

Lockport, Illinois
Homer glen deserves to see appropriate due diligence when it comes to re-developing the former k-mart site. with a city center still lacking, something in which the current community will value and potential residents will appreciate is needed. ...
building

Skyloft on West Cortland

Chicago, Illinois
I feel that given the state of chicago’s socioeconomic resume, and since a large majority of this cities income and equity derives from tourism and its own collection of tourist attractions i feel the most logical and profitable addition to the ...
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Marina city museum

Chicago, Illinois
How about using the unused alcove on the east tower lobby level to display marina city artifacts?
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Encourage the development of live/work housing

Antioch, Illinois
In order to improve the diversity of housing types and incubate new local businesses in Antioch, the development of live/work housing should be encouraged. Live/work units are small- to medium-sized attached or detached structures consisting of on...
missing-middle-housing multi-family workshops startups small-business live-work commercial residential land-use building housing

Training Programs and Job Opportunities

Chicago, Illinois
Invite service providers and businesses to present information to NNUP about training programs and job opportunities.
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