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Make Washington a Hub for Regional Art & Culture

Washington, Illinois
The Square has always been the perfect backdrop. A community of artists, musicians, writers, and other creatives (existing + new) can grow there with the right support and then branch out into the rest of the community in the future.
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More parks

Chicago, Illinois
More parks are fun
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Evaluate the Historic Preservation Ordinance

Peoria, Illinois
Ascertain that Peoria’s historic preservation ordinance is both succinct and effective in its implementation.
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Enhance trails & bicycle paths that connect residents to parks

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Connectivity and accessibility to the Buffalo Grove’s parks is critical to maintaining a high quality of life. Enhancement of trails and bike paths is important to accomplishing this goal.
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Movie night under the bridge

Peoria, Illinois
This idea includes projecting a movie onto the concrete support structures under the bridge. People could bring blankets and chairs to watch in the moonlight.
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Reduce the pollution that arcelor mittal produces

Riverdale, Illinois
This steel factory contaminates the air in the neighboring communities. By reducing the pollution this factory produces, this campaign with make the community surrounding the factory safer for all residents.
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Create Main Street Plaza

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Closing off Main St between Crescent and Pennsylvania to create a public square with a fountain in the center that incorporates the horse trough, a few large trees, the addition of bench seating and restaurant seating, could be a wonderful gatheri...
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Rooftop Development

Peoria, Illinois
Provide roof top environments. Either through restaurant seating or residential terraces.
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Develop a West Main Street Bio-Research Campus

Peoria, Illinois
Develop a bio-research campus as an in-fill project and a key component to re-developing the West Main Street corridor.
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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 ...
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Share unique streetscape elements from other downtowns

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Have you visited other downtowns that have successful streetscapes? What do you think makes them work well? Do they have unique elements that would work in Glen Ellyn? Share your ideas in the comment section below.
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Mr. Dad's Father's Club (Community Center)

Chicago, Illinois
The community center will help provide resources for our youth as well as our adults in the community. The community center will also provide access to help build children SEL social emotional learning skills, Literacy,Arts,Jobs,Afterschool progra...
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North Lawndale's Yellow Brick Road

Chicago, Illinois
CCA’s food forest, PermaPark, needs a walkway to create a more inviting space, direct traffic flow through the forest, create a chill space for people to hang out and to demonstrate sustainable methods of building.
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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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Peoria Public Market

Peoria, Illinois
Establish an indoor public market in downtown Peoria with food and market vendor stalls.
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Advocate for the Development of Model Community Anchors at Neighborhood Centers

Peoria, Illinois
Encourage development of model neighborhood centers as “community anchors,” through public-private partnerships, as a technique for stimulating and facilitating the broader redevelopment of the centers of Peoria’s urban neighborhoods. Tenants need...
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Power In The Murals

Chicago, Illinois
In the North Lawndale area we want to have something that is a reflection of our community. We want visual art to be in place of the Independence Day Square fountain. This space will also be a place where people can have friendly social encounters...
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Improve downtown alleys for business owners and visitors

Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Downtown streetscapes are a primary focus. However, improving downtown alleyscapes can also be beneficial. Enhancing their look and feel to be more in tune with the rest of the streetscapes can improve the overall appearance of downtown. Share you...
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Rock Climbing Wall Utilizing Public/Private Structures Already In Place

Peoria, Illinois
Chattanooga, TN, in cooperation with private and public enterprises, turned currently existing structures in their downtown area into a world class rock climbing destination. We have a lot of private buildings downtown, as well as existing (new an...
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Creating a comfort zone

Chicago, Illinois
I would like to create a new fountain similar to Fontaine de la Rotonde In the center there would be a fist and on the top painted the african colors with images of black leaders. A little description of each would be underneath. I also think tha...
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Riverfront Games

Peoria, Illinois
I think we should create opportunities for people to play games like Ping-Pong, chess, bocce ball, etc. on the Riverfront. Infrastructure, like relatively permanent Ping-Pong tables or chess boards could be placed around the Gateway Building and ...
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community is unity garden

Chicago, Illinois
My idea is a community garden on the boulevard and a sheltered area for vendors to have a farmers market. It would bring revenue to our community and give entrepreneurs from all over Chicago a place to sell their products. The garden would also be...
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Riverfront Water Feature

Peoria, Illinois
Create an Attraction
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City Beach

Peoria, Illinois
Peoria (and the Illinois River in general) doesn't have a nice public beach. Convert Riverfront Village to an urban sand dune landscaped with native Illinois grasses. Emphasis would be not only on providing a beach for enjoying good weather, and...
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