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Urban Farming

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Consider the possibility of urban farming on the site - outdoors and indoors (hydroponics and aquaponics). The Plant in the Back of the Yards neighborhood would be great example. "Found...
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Botanical Garden

East Peoria, Illinois
A botanical garden, butterfly garden, and/or community garden. This could focus on local plants or have specific color themes for each year. A garden would provide beauty and if it could also be educational or practical, the more beneficial.
green-space garden public-space walking land-use

Mr. Dad's Father's Club (Free Plants)

Chicago, Illinois
This will help build our community and show we are here to stand together. This will be a wonderful day to give back. Some plants will be donated to the Garden on 51st Calumet and the rest will be donated to the community on behalf of our Mr. Dad...
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Transforming Concrete Puddle to a Sustainable Oasis

Chicago, Illinois
UIC has a hidden gem of a green space – but it is under-utilized due to limited seating, accessibility, and stormwater flooding issues. Help realize our vision of a sustainable, revitalized campus to build a stormwater-reducing patio, increase bio...
diversity stormwater public-space land-use infrastructure

The Open Fields of Austin Area

Chicago, Illinois
The austin area is located on the westside of chicago,illinois, it is one of the largest areas by population and there are a lot of students coming from here to our school. there are a lot of open fields that can be use for stuff. like some field...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods

Install Mid-Block Crossings on Main Street

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Mid-block crossings improve walkability in places where pedestrian traffic is busiest and people are already crossing versus at marked intersections. Crossings would be delineated using brick pavers, signage, and/or low plantings to alert drivers ...
infrastructure street walking

Planting Trees to Benefit Our Needs

Chicago, Illinois
Our goal is to turn vacant and non-useful spaces in the 9th Ward community into forest and woodlands. Long-time residents and visitors of the area will be more useful to our project, having a higher knowledge of the area and what spaces are vacant...
land-use public-space preservation

Plant Power: Seed Banks

Reno, Nevada
Reno needs more color. Have you ever been to a city that has beautiful flowers, amazing vegetation, and luscious greenery? Well, Plant Power can make Reno that city. We are proposing to install a mailbox structure in the shape of a house to hold s...
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Let's Build Parc De L'Ermitage in Downtown Glen Ellyn

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
We should convert the old Giesche Shoes and the adjacent parking lot into a green park with an array of amenities. To honor our French sister city, Le Bouscat, we should seek inspiration from the park in their downtown, Parc De L'Ermitage, which h...
le-bouscat little-free-library organic-gardening theater music park public-space bicycling

Be Sustainable

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Plans to redevelop the site should include a number of different sustainable practices that could be implemented. Everything should be on the table - from planting more trees to green ro...
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Conserve Water , Sprout Life

Chicago, Illinois
To collect rain water , Preserve plant life and change the enviorment.
land-use park preservation water recycling

Nurture a healthy and successful urban forest

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Glen Ellyn should strive to grow and maintain a sustainable "urban forest", primarily by way of a healthy tree canopy along downtown streets, that contributes to the livability of the downtown. The trees that comprise that canopy would be recogniz...
park public-space open-space placemaking

Add decorative features to the streetscape

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Add additional streetscape elements that make a more pleasant and interesting place for people to walk and spend time. This could include public art, plantings, unique seating and lighting.
infrastructure public-space street placemaking

Interesting landscape as buffers from street traffic

Columbus, Ohio
Planting trees and shrubs near the street provide a good buffer between pedestrians and automobiles. While many areas in Columbus already have small plots of grass by their roads, it is important that the landscape is artistic and unique. Interest...
forge-ahead

Plant Street Trees to Increase Savings, Safety, and Quality of Life

Washington, Illinois
Trees grown along residential streets and commercial corridors alike can increase property values and decrease automobile speeds. The shade they provide reduces utility bills and encourages more physical activity - walking and bicycling. The envir...
bicycling infrastructure public-space street water safety quality-of-life property-values walking stormwater pedestrians street-trees

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

CLEAN AIR: more trees in parks and less heavy through-traffic on residential streets

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Recent developments in Buffalo Grove seem to go against our most vital resource - clean air! Too many trees cut down, and quiet residential streets, where our children should be able to play safe and happy, look now like mini highways, ridden with...
walking street preservation infrastructure bicycling park