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Street Right-Sizing Initiative

Peoria, Illinois
Develop a Street "Right-Sizing" Initiative for overbuilt arterial streets within the City that allows for the reduction and/or reallocation of underutilized lane miles of roadway and provides focused - or even increased - maintenance on the lane m...
urban-forestry urban-heat-island-reduction stormwater-management green-infrastructure placemaking public-health economic-development neighborhood-scale public-safety complete-streets transit public-space land-use bicycling walking street infrastructure

Ski and Sledding Hill

Peoria, Illinois
I think the Peoria region would a perfect site for a permanent ski and sled hill. I've been to a few public and privately managed ski hills across the Midwest (Alpine Hills Rockford, IL and Cannonburg- Grand Rapids, MI) and they all have been very...
ski-hill park public-space

Chicago Vocational Career Academy

Chicago, Illinois
The history of Chicago Vocational Career Academy was born out of expansion and need, it's growth fueled by the prowess of a world war. Today, CVCA has managed to redefine itself in a computerized world that didn't exist in 1938. From the first da...

Data-powered street furniture

Columbus, Ohio
By using built-in sensors, trash and recycle bins can detect how full they are and call for collection only when it is needed. Finland, for example, is making collecting the garbage smarter with its own product Enevo, a system that records when...
forge-ahead

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

Develop a Parking Management District

Peoria, Illinois
Like a public utility, a parking management district would be empowered to coordinate the location and allocation of the plentiful existing parking.
policy parking governance

Operation Social Media Presence

Peoria, Illinois
I propose using social media such as Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook, to target the Millennial demographic in over crowded cities like Chicago. Young people need to see that Peoria is a fun place to live, while remaining more affordable...
small-business social-media increasing-population youth-retention

Improvements to Farm Creek

Washington, Illinois
The creek area around Washington Police Department, could be transformed to include Basketball Courts and a new Playground. The creek itself could improve with a new step pool system designed to help with managing storm water runoff while also imp...
park water preservation

Office of the City Treasurer, City of Chicago

Rockford, Illinois
The Office of the City Treasurer is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four City employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the Treasurer’s Office manages a number ...

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

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

JLL

JLL is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. Our vision is to reimagine the world of real estate, creating rewarding opportunities and amazing spaces where people can achieve their ambition...

Exclude schools from downtown off-street parking requirements

Antioch, Illinois
Instead of spending funds on designated parking spaces for people attending functions that draw large crowds (ex: graduation, sporting events), schools should focus their investments on the students, faculty, and the learning environment. When tho...
schools parking-requirements off-street-parking parking

Create an oversight organization that supports downtown Peoria development

Peoria, Illinois
While the Warehouse District has the potential to become a thriving, urban neighborhood, it can benefit from a collective effort to promote all of downtown Peoria as the heart of the community and region. The distinct areas of the downtown core, i...
programming marketing promotion maintenance management

lake view high school recycling

Chicago, Illinois
The main goal for our project is to help our school community learn to properly recycle and emphasize the importance of recycling. Currently Lake View has blue recycling bins for paper only, however, students often place other recycling items and ...
lvhs-recycling paper-plastic-lvhs lvhs-recycling-management lvhs-recycling-challenge