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Improve support for new and existing businesses

Chicago, Illinois
Increasing our local Small Business Improvement Funds (SBIF) through Tax Increment Financing Districts (TIF) will provide more financial resources for small, locally owned businesses to make improvements to their stores and facades. Expanding the ...

CBRE

Chicago, Illinois
THE WORLDWIDE LEADER IN REAL ESTATE SERVICES CBRE’s more than 75,000 professionals provide exceptional outcomes for clients in 60+ countries by combining local market insight, broad services, specialized expertise and premier tools and resources.

Big Picture

Peoria, Illinois
Mounted murals are placed on dozens of buildings throughout central Illinois drawing attention to the love, appreciation, and respect of our most needed resource, water.
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Outreach to older adults

Chicago, Illinois
Older adults are a key component in our community and should have the resources to better navigate their lives whether living with assistance or independently. We will create an intergenerational health awareness program with older adults and lo...

Encourage public & private organizations to establish sustainable development & operating practices

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
In addition to the strides that Buffalo Grove has made in becoming more sustainable, the Village should encourage public and private organizations to undertake sustainable development and operating practices that meet the needs of the present with...
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Health/Wellness & Daily Tasks for Seniors

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Develop resources for health/wellness and day to day tasks for seniors.
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Preserving Brooks

Chicago, Illinois
Our campaign includes us preserving Brooks lights and paper. Us as a community, teachers and students must better utilize our resources and not overuse them in order to better our environment. This is the goal of our campaign.
preservation water paper

Helping At-Risk Youth Living in Underserved Communities

Chicago, Illinois
The current social problem that is plaguing Chicago is an abundance of high crime and violence. There has been an overwhelming amount of news reports that focus on youth violence and crime as being a major concern. To help solve this problem, "...
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Pop-up Resource Fairs for the Homeless

Chicago, Illinois
The Church of the Spirit would like to host pop-up events at Fireman's Park in Logan Square where they offer homeless people a wide range of services and resources. At the event, they would offer a hot meal, canned goods, sanitary supplies, blanke...
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Increase education and training programs and resources for parents

Chicago, Illinois
Education is not only for youth. Our community needs increased access to ESL classes, GED classes, educational workshops, and technical training/bridge programs for adults, which we will achieve by building partnerships between local community org...

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

Pass a Racial Equity Ordinance

Peoria, Illinois
Successful city governments have the ability to ensure equitable service delivery outcomes for all city employees and city residents, regardless of age, gender, religion, country of origin, or race. Most recently in the U.S., highly publicized ...
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LISC Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
LISC Chicago connects neighborhoods to the resources they need to become stronger and healthier. Established in 1980, LISC Chicago's flagship program, the New Communities Program, supports quality-of-life planning in low-moderate income neighborh...

Oak Park Public Library

Chicago, Illinois
Our community is the driver for everything we do. Our vision is to empower every voice in our community, and our mission is to share the information, services, and opportunities that fulfill Oak Park's aspirations of literacy, education, diversity...

Christopher B. Burke Engineering

Chicago, Illinois
Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. (CBBEL) is a full-service company that comprehensively meets the needs of both private and public sector clients. Our staff of 208 and expansive list of specializations—civil, municipal, transportation, wate...

Expand resources for Latina/o businesses

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: BC Chamber | Onward House, NWSHC, 30th, 31st & 36th Wards Project Timeframe: Short-term
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Share Resources

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Given the campus-like nature of the site, the plan for redevelopment should consider the possibility of prospective new owners / tenants sharing resources - from high-tech machinery to se...
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Preserve / Adaptively Reuse Significant Historic Resources

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: 25-35% of the buildings within the PMD must be reused / adapted. Preservation of the Cortland Bridge, the railroad swing bridge, as well as the Finkl signage should be considered as well.
north-branch-river-works

Real-time feedback on energy use

Peoria, Illinois
Individuals, families and businesses don’t have access to real-time information about their energy consumption. On a micro scale, this data can help inform decisions ranging from changing the thermostat by one degree to large scale efficiency upgr...
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Improve the performance and perception of our neighborhood high schools

Chicago, Illinois
Our neighborhood high schools are resources that have served our community for generations. As strong proponents of our neighborhood public schools, we are committed to supporting our high schools and ensuring they have the capabilities to offer o...

Create a trilingual resource guide to navigate the Affordable Care Act

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Patient Innovation Center | PrimeCare Community Health Project Timeframe: Early Action Project
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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...
quality-of-life air-quality electric-vehicles parking public-safety public-wifi energy-use smart-connected-streets smart-city transit street land-use infrastructure

Museum campus transportation

Chicago, Illinois
Utilize chicago's greatest feature lake michigan. there are multiple harbors on both the north side (evanston, montrose, etc) and south side (new 31st harbor, jackson, etc). also infrastructure already is in place along the chicago river encoura...

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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