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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

Build Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to Broaden Housing Options

Washington, Illinois
An ADU (aka granny flat, coach house, in-law suite) is a smaller, independent residential dwelling unit located on the same lot as a single-family home. In some cases, an ADU is located on the second floor of a detached garage. ADUs benefit the...
building housing land-use adu accessory-dwelling-units granny-flats mother-in-law-suite coach-house in-law-suite

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

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

Increase housing diversity to accommodate existing & new residents

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
In order to improve the diversity of housing in Buffalo Grove, the development of accessory dwelling units, multi-family housing, townhomes, and other types should be explored. These types of units can accommodate seniors looking to age in place a...
townhomes multi-family missing-middle-housing land-use housing granny-flats fourplexes triplex duplexes courtyard-housing coach-house bungalow-court building apartments adus accessory-dwelling-units

Dunkin Donuts Project

Plainfield, Illinois
I'm currently living in Shorewood; however, my husband and I are looking to downsize and possibly relocate to Plainfield. During our house search last week, we noticed the sign on the property apparently designated for Dunkin Donuts. We made som...
a-vision-for-division

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

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

SUPPORT THE SOUTH SIDE DADS 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...
life-skills mentoring family father-s community social-emotional-learning

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...

Largest Fresh Water Aquarium

East Peoria, Illinois
Create the largest freshwater aquarium attraction in central United States. The attraction would feature primarily fish that are native to central United States. This attraction would draw families to the riverfront.
land-use building preservation

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

Address overcrowding in our CPS elementary schools

Chicago, Illinois
Overcrowding in our elementary schools threatens to undo the positive school culture and achievement our schools’ staff, faculty, students and families have built. Long-term plans for addressing this issue should be made in conjunction with the co...

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...

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

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

Ice Skating Rink and Carousel

Peoria, Illinois
Downtown Peoria, including the Riverfront, lacks family friendly, low cost, activities and venues. Skating and a carousel provide destination activities for all ages.
family-friendly-low-cost-destination public-space land-use park

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

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

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.

Paint crosswalks across speer blvd at cherry creek trail exits

Denver, Colorado
The cherry creek trail is a great asset to our community as it provides safe and easy transportation in a beautiful environment through the city for cyclists, pedestrians, in-line skaters, families, and more. however, connections to the trail are ...
street

Rebuild Austin Streets

Chicago, Illinois
The streets of austin are really damaged, and i want to change them. i want to rebuild the street for my community so they can drive down the street and won’t have to turn around because the street isn’t right. i want to rebuild for many reasons. ...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods street