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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...
walking street land-use infrastructure housing bicycling

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

The Congress Theater...

Chicago, Illinois
My neighborhood is surrounded by many buildings,stores and parks theres a building around its called the congress theater.it was used for wrestling shows and concerts.on april theater was shut down had its liquor license revoked due numerous saf...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

Warehouse District Parking

Peoria, Illinois
The City should address parking issues in the Warehouse District to promote further development. On-street parking is adequate to meet current demand. However, with new businesses opening up this year, like Zion Coffee, and those soon to come pa...
infrastructure

Caring for Canaryville

Chicago, Illinois
The name of my neighborhood is canaryville. it is apart of the new city community on the south side. there is a park in my neighborhood called taylor lauridsen park. across from the playground there is an empty space not being used right now. the ...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods park

Park Staffing

Chicago, Illinois
Promote the renovation and adequate staffing of parks.
open-space park

Public Open Space Along the River

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Include clean and safe park space adjacent to the Chicago River for passive and recreation purposes. Collaborative art and music spaces could find a place here too.
north-branch-river-works

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

Rooftop Development

Peoria, Illinois
Provide roof top environments. Either through restaurant seating or residential terraces.
building housing park public-space infrastructure

Fare-free zone on Metra Electric

Chicago, Illinois
The Metra Electric is the smoothest, quickest way to get from the Loop to the Museum Campus area, but it's not well used for that purpose--people who already have CTA passes are likely to use a bus to get there instead of paying $2.75 to buy a Met...
museum-campus-transportation-study

Riverfront Sculpture Garden

Peoria, Illinois
Establish a Sculpture Garden for large scale outdoor sculptures to enhance the public art and culture of Peoria. My suggestion is that this be a large park with plenty of green-space for multi-use purpose but includes these large outdoor sculpture...
a-vision-for-downtown-peoria water walking preservation public-space land-use park

Fruit forest sculpture garden on humboldt boulevard!

Chicago, Illinois
Let's transform humboldt boulevard from a strip of dying grass and catalpa trees, into a thriving urban fruit and nut forest, filled with apple, pear, plum, cherry, pawpaw, peach, nectarine, pecan, chestnut, hickory, etc. trees!!! and let's throw ...
park

Chicago River

Chicago, Illinois
I would love to see clean up and restoration of and along the Chicago River to make it safe for wildlife and recreation (i.e. biking, walking, kayaking). I am thinking, in particular, of something like the Lincoln Park Lagoon and Nature's Boardwal...
north-branch-river-works

Minimize Traffic Through the Site

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Automobile and bus traffic through the redevelopment site must be minimized. Places like Best Buy have large parking structures that are not being used to capacity and could be utilized ...
north-branch-river-works

Forest Preserve Accessibility

Chicago, Illinois
The site that this project would improve is the Schiller Woods forest preserve. The park has multiple trails and other programs but the main issue is that it is hard to find and enter. This idea is to put a map to the park in the nearby bus statio...
transit public-space park

Expand summer youth sports programming

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Belmont Cragin Youth Task Force/Mikva | CPD, NWSHC, Churches Project Timeframe: Short-term"
safety youth-programs park

Door buffered bike lanes

Peoria, Illinois
Part of a financially sustainable city is urban density. Part of a vibrant downtown is the necessity of people being outside, and out of their cars. Getting around by bicycle plays with both of these aspects, but most Peorians aren't used to this ...
transit street bicycling

Cortland Connector Bikeway between Lincoln Park and Bucktown

Chicago, Illinois
Cortland is already a key route for people trying to cross the river by bike, because it's one of the few non-arterial bridges over the river with less traffic, but it's still an intimidating ride. Let's make it comfortable to bike over the river ...
north-branch-river-works

Trailers + Recreational Vehicle Parking

Yorkville, Illinois
There is a concern that trailers (utility, boat, horse, cargo, camping, travel) and recreational vehicles are too large for residential lots and have been known to impede upon neighboring properties as well as the sidewalk. Is this a concern ...
visualizing-yorkville-zoning

Support the Removal of Parking Minimums from the Zoning Code

Washington, Illinois
Washington is over parked. Changes in consumer preferences have made expansive parking lots designed for annual holiday shopping excursions obsolete. In the future, these unsustainable and costly asphalt parking lots could become new development t...
infrastructure land-use public-space street parking parking-minimums suburban-retrofit

Make Wabash Connections

Chicago, Illinois
Activate the east-west connection from Millennium Park and Michigan Avenue by engaging activity nodes at the intersection along Wabash Avenue to draw in visitors.
transforming-wabash

Tourism & Cultural Economic Development

Chicago, Illinois
Join us as we discuss the opportunities and developments taking place on the South Side under the broader umbrella of Tourism and how we can use "Cultural Economic Development" to socially and economically develoment pur communities.
small-business-development economic-development bicycling walking street water housing building park transit preservation public-space land-use infrastructure

Flood Level Marker

East Peoria, Illinois
Create a sculptural monument at the water's edge to mark different notable years of flooding, or just to artistically display the river's flood levels during an actual flood. Would look great if partially made out of slabs of green and blue glass ...
flood-level public-art water public-space park

Peoria Riverfront Park

Peoria, Illinois
The City of Peoria should consider the example set by the Cincinnati Parks Department and their creation of Smale Riverfront Park. Passive/Active Recreation areas along with open green space for special events have all been considered with their ...
park