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Family Fun Destination in Warehouse District

Peoria, Illinois
Spurring economic development and greater interest in the Warehouse District of downtown by creating a destination for families from in the city and around the area to come and enjoy on nights, weekends and in the summer. This could include the d...
restaurants entertainment business-development family walking

Support Potential Homeowners

Chicago, Illinois
Homeownership provides stability to residents and allows families to grow their savings. Existing homeownership counseling in the community by NWSHC and SCH provides a route to that goal by helping applicants improve their credit, understand optio...

Bee Keeping in Yorkville

Yorkville, Illinois
Is permitting the practice of beekeeping something that would benefit the residents of Yorkville? Borrowing from the ordinances of Evanston, IL and Milwaukee, WI, Yorkville drafted an ordinance that allows for limited beekeeping on properties a...
visualizing-yorkville-zoning

Avondale!

Chicago, Illinois
Avondale is located on the northwest side of Chicago, and its entire east side is in contact with the river, yet there is little interaction. Factories mostly border the river. For more statistics, Avondale is top tier in Chicago’s “park-poo...
transit public-space land-use housing park building

City of Washington

Chicago, Illinois
We are proud of Washington's reputation as a vibrant community offering a high quality of life supported by excellent schools, safe neighborhoods, diverse parks and recreation offerings, and a resident population motivated by volunteerism and comm...

Family Fun, there's enough bars and concert attractions DT

Peoria, Illinois
We need a family fun experience that will be for the entire-year-round! Peoria lacks anything for the family that is indoors that you can go to for all seasons of Illinois weather. An indoor water park, indoor playground, (the one at Grand Prairi...
games play family water

More Assistance for Those Suffering from Mental Illness

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
This is has two changes that go hand in hand and need to be changed. I believe the first step is education. Education not only for the residents, but almost more importantly, our first responders. In addition to providing people with ACCURATE, ...

Open a community school at a Belmont Cragin high school

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: CPS | NWSHC, LSC, CPS Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Project Timeframe: Mid-term
safety youth-programs schools

Improve Affordable Rental Housing

Chicago, Illinois
Although Belmont Cragin has many single-family homes, rental housing is an important component of our housing market. In fact, 50 percent of housing units in our community are owner-occupied while 50 percent are occupied by a renter.

Latin United Community Housing Association

LUCHA was founded in 1982 by residents of Humboldt Park, West Town and Logan Square to combat displacement and preserve affordable housing in the community. Since its founding, LUCHA has helped more than 68,000 low-to-moderate income families ren...

Permanent grocery stores for the neighborhood

Chicago, Illinois
The story of my neighborhood so where i live ( which is south shore drive ) is a very neutral place,filled with children and moms, and corner liquor stores.my new idea is that we make a place/plaza for a grocery store that stays there and can neve...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods

Real-time feedback on energy use

Peoria, Illinois
Individuals, families and businesses don’t have access to real-time information about their energy consumption. On a micro scale, this data can help inform decisions ranging from changing the thermostat by one degree to large scale efficiency upgr...
cost-savings resource-use renewable-energy energy-efficiency sustainability building infrastructure energy

Beyond Allowance

Chicago, Illinois
Poverty hurts everyone, even the rich. i have an idea to help said people out of poverty. we should give tax breaks to companies that provide stable jobs. the problem is that the jobs we have aren’t enough to provide for our families and ourselve...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

Support the Southside Dad's Conference

Chicago, Illinois
This all day dad's conference held on the city's south side would be geared towards helping dad's become better fathers. The conference would include job workshops and speakers focused on the topics such as the benefits of social & emotional learn...
social-and-emotional-learning workshop conference fathers family

Urban Skate Park

Los Angeles, California
Family friendly Urban Skateboard Park in the Warehouse/Arts District area. Urban sculptures and artwork from local artists and students would be featured in the park. The park would have areas for beginners (young children) and areas for the more ...
park

Riverfront Parking/Covered Space for Market

Peoria, Illinois
More city owned parking should be available to allow families with children and elderly adequate access to what to riverfront offers. Attractions like The Spirit of Peoria will be without parking when the current deck is torn down leaving their ma...
public-space

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

Stopping Food Waste In Lake View

Chicago, Illinois
We are making posters to inform families and friends of Lake View community about the issue of throwing food in a food waste bin and the results of that action. Making these posters, we are hoping that students will participate in recycling food ...
food food-waste sustainablity

Bathrooms!

Peoria, Illinois
Family friendly restrooms should be located at least a few places along the riverfront. Right now the only bathrooms are in the gateway building and are often closed unless events are going on. Bathrooms should be placed at least under each bridge...
public-space park water street bathrooms

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

Indoor Riverfront Fun Park

East Peoria, Illinois
An indoor fun complex that would provide a place for family's to have fun and hold their birthday celebrations. The complex would offer laser tag, go carts, bumper cars, family friendly movie center, bungee trampolines, a gaming area that offers v...
economy fun jobs

Encourage the development of duplexes

Antioch, Illinois
In order to improve the diversity of housing types in Antioch, the development of duplexes should be encouraged. Duplexes are small to medium-sized structures that consist of two stacked dwelling units, one on top of the other or side-by-side, bot...
multi-family duplex residential land-use housing building

Improve Parks in Austin

Chicago, Illinois
I think that we should change all the lots that do not have nothing in it so the kids can have somewhere to play at or play basketball at or they can hang out at or play with friends or you can watch the kids play or take your kids there or anybo...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods park

Transform Pilsen

Chicago, Illinois
Pilsen is my neighborhood and i want the best for it. families are worried about what will happen in the night because of all the gangbangers. many people are also sick and tired of the gang violence in the community. i see the violence and i wan...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods