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Restoring Hyde Park

Chicago, Illinois
Our goal as a team is to clean up the neighborhood of Hyde Park as a whole. We want to make Hyde Park a clean place for tourists and other people that visit there for the landmarks. There are various schools (Kenwood, and The University of Chicago...
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Exclude small businesses from Downtown Parking District off-street parking requirements

Antioch, Illinois
Instead of spending money on designated parking spaces for their customers beyond on-street parking, downtown business owners would have the freedom to invest in their products, services, and the spaces in which they sell them. This would also pro...
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Revitalize Northeast Patio at the Merchandise Mart

Chicago, Illinois
The paved seating area outside of the northeast entrance into the Merchandise Mart needs a refresh. New seating, improved landscaping, and even some sort of programming (ex: pop-up shop, food stand) could make this corner special instead of forget...
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South Deering

Chicago, Illinois
My chicago neighborhood is south deering located from 95th to e 110th .43 homicides has been committed in this area bu since it against the constitution to take away citizens bear arms.i think we should find alternatives at the local park trumbull...
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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 ...
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Create Pedestrian Activity Zones

Chicago, Illinois
Shift parking to the east side of street and activate the west side as a linear pocket park between the ‘L’ support columns and the sidewalk. The parks could be grass, activated public plazas, dog runs or toddler play areas.
transforming-wabash

CTA Gray Line Project

Chicago, Illinois
Looking West from the new Lucas Museum site, what do you see?: http://bit.ly/UY5GvE Shiny Metra Electric trains just 500ft (less than a block) from the Museum site, and from above you can see just how close to the Museum those Metra trains presen...
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The Beautiful Garden of Washington Park

Chicago, Illinois
I would propose for washington park whole park be redone & to be fixed currently all the rims on the hoops are gone people would come and tear down the nets to the hoops which also makes me say there should be more park rangers around for that ca...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods park

Belmont Plaza

Chicago, Illinois
In my neighborhood i would like to build a plaza where there is stores a big park and some restaurants and people would enjoy and come everyday i want a big stadium where every weekends famous singers and people would come and the entrance will be...
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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

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...
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Fish, Poop, and You - The natural way of eating!

Chicago, Illinois
Ms. Love's and Mrs. Benjamin's Chemistry and Biology students at Kelly High School will develop an Aquaponics farm within the school, with the goal of producing educational and celebratory events that will encourage the members of the surrounding ...
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Transforming Wabash

Chicago, Illinois
Wabash Avenue, once a thriving destination of commerce + activity, is a transformational opportunity in waiting. Resting between a vibrant State Street and the magnificence of Chicago's Michigan Avenue fronted Millennium Park, Wabash can again ri...

Warehouse Trolley

East Peoria, Illinois
This will help solve connectivity, storm water back up, transportation to work and retail, a great attraction, and get people to the park.
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Reconfigure Jefferson Street for Two-way Traffic with On-street Parking

Peoria, Illinois
Although one way streets can smooth traffic flows, they allow traffic to speed up to the point where the street becomes increasingly hostile to pedestrians. At the same time, the one-way streets make local access within the grid more difficult by ...
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Creating Smarter Infrastructure

Peoria, Illinois
Cities across the globe are beginning to leverage public infrastructure such as lamp posts to serve multiple purposes. The result is a network of "connected streets" can improve the lives of the city's users while creating more efficient and effec...
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public parks & pedestrian friendly measures to help reconnect spaces downtown

Columbus, Ohio
This is a great idea and initiative that Dallas has taken on in order to bridge different areas of their downtown that were cut off by freeways and/or other landmarks. It's an interesting idea where by layering and capping certain areas you can r...
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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...
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Lakeview Compost Bin

Chicago, Illinois
We are Lake View High School LVIA (Lake View Innovation Academy) students, and our plan is to build a hanging compost bin that will be put outside the school next to our football field. The creation of this hanging compost bin can be used to dispo...
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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...
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Transform the Georgetown Apartment Property into Bicentennial Park

Washington, Illinois
I feel this would be a prime spot for a walking park where access could be gained with a drop down from the rec trail to the north, or from Kern to the south. My vision sees this as a natural area except for a path for walking. Let large trees f...
walking public-space park land-use

Improve the Area Around the Crescent & Forest Intersection

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Reduce traffic lanes on Forest, widen sidewalks on Crescent, and screen the parking lot at Lulu’s restaurant.
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Create a Whitewater Race Course

Peoria, Illinois
Pursue development of a whitewater race course, utilizing available land to the north of the current recreational and fitness complex.
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Calisthenics Park

Peoria, Illinois
There is not a single fitness park in the State of Illinois south of Aurora. Go to Chicago, Milwaukee, St Louis, or any other city center or its suburbs and fitness parks are everywhere. The "fitness" park at Glen Oak is a joke. A fitness park, es...
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