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Urban Housing

Peoria, Illinois
Support the development of downtown housing in the Warehouse District. Establish incentives that will encourage residential development in a compact area sufficient to create economies of scale sufficient to support residential service businesses ...
a-vision-for-downtown-peoria housing

Proposal of express bus service between Chicago museums and parking and CTA transit stations and Metra stations

Chicago, Illinois
While bus service is currently available between Chicago's Museum Campus into the city, and other locations such as MSI and Lincoln Park, it can and should be improved for all local and suburban residents as well as visitors. Express bus service ...
museum-campus-transportation-study

Citizen-Sourced Problem Solving

Peoria, Illinois
Our City faces a number of difficult challenges, including those in the realms of infrastructure, economic opportunity, and community well-being. The municipal government works to address these challenges through its programs on a daily basis, but...
collective-impact crowdsourcing grants competitions citizen-activism public-service volunteerism community-driven problem-solving public-feedback innovation civic-engagement building park bicycling walking street land-use housing water public-space preservation transit infrastructure

Improve Regional Mass Transit First!

Chicago, Illinois
I live in the suburbs, adjacent the UP-West Metra rail line. My kids love coming to the museums, but we almost *never* use mass transit because the timing of trains during the day is horrible! It takes over an hour to get downtown, and the mid-d...
museum-campus-transportation-study

Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois
Gewalt Hamilton Associates provides civil engineering services including site design, construction administration and observation, surveying, roadway design, transportation studies and data collection in partnership with municipalities, other gove...

Immediate Fixes Desperately Needed for Museum Campus Access

Chicago, Illinois
I went to the MPC open house last week and it was good to talk with people, including Yonah Freemark. My hope (and goal) is to institute immediate (and relatively inexpensive) improvements to the current DISMAL public transportation situation to ...
museum-campus-transportation-study

Teamwork Englewood

Chicago, Illinois
Teamwork Englewood is a capacity builder and a catalyst for positive community change, focused on safety, services to special needs populations and the promotion of healthy lifestyles for all residents. We are committed to providing quality servic...

Build a New Street within the Warehouse District

Peoria, Illinois
Transform an existing service alley into New Street, lined with storefronts and galleries.
retail walking preservation public-space land-use infrastructure street building

Create a Program of Community Policing

Peoria, Illinois
Take seriously the recommendations that appear in a number of the neighborhood plans and institute an ambitious and rigorously implemented program of community policing.
policing services governance

Forge Columbus

Chicago, Illinois
Forge Columbus strengthens community business in Columbus. We invest in entrepreneurs who want to build a better city by providing business services, access to capital, and promotion of their community mission to a local and national audience. Ou...

Forge Ahead

Columbus, Ohio
Forge Ahead is a community-driven plan for building world-class public transportation in Columbus. Columbus is a growing, thriving place and each citizen is working to contribute to the city’s success. Our businesses, non-profits, and public servi...

Preservation Oak Park

This group is devoted to education about the built environment in Oak Park, Illinois. It celebrates the community's rich architectural and planning heritage and the many ways it has been preserved and restored. Photos, stories and commentary about...

Regenerate Neighborhoods

Chicago, Illinois
A new high school curriculum focused on civic engagement, activism and service learning within the context of neighborhood planning, design, development and governance. Regenerate Neighborhoods was the 2016 American Planning Association (Illinois...

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group G

Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Uber model for city services

Peoria, Illinois
With decreasing revenues and increasing demand for public services, the City is challenged to meet the evolving needs of citizens. Could an interactive mobile application, similar to the Uber technology platform, be leveraged to provide on-demand ...
community-building agile-technology mobile-app city-services crowdsourcing human-capital technology

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 ...
equity infrastructure land-use housing

Mr. Dad's Father's Club

Chicago, Illinois
Positive male-role model stakeholders e.g. fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers, uncles, guardians and caregivers to foster support and service to children to develop their academic, social/emotional learning, and leadership skills.
life-skills mentoring community non-profit-organization

Improve access to transit, such as expanding bus services on weekends

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC, 30th, 31st & 36th Wards, LISC, City of Chicago Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health transit

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...
museum-campus-transportation-study

New "central transit center" on the near south lakefront

Chicago, Illinois
Create a new "central transit center" on the lakefront serving the museum campus/lucas museum/mccormick place/depaul arena area. it would encompass and connect: + create new streetcar services that might arise from the "museum campus transit...

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group J

Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Downtown Riverfront

Peoria, Illinois
If the idea is to create a park along the riverfront, features that draw people in to the park & surrounding area are important such as splash pads/areas for kiddos, dog parks, paved trails, shaded areas for picnics & hammocks, art installations, ...
park land-use water walking public-space bicycling

Develop a multi-purpose community center

Chicago, Illinois
The multi-purpose community center should incorporate the living room model for access to health services. Project lead | Partners: PCC Community Wellness Center, PrimeCare Community Health | 30th, 31st & 36th Wards Project Timeframe: Long-term
health public-space park building

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group E

Antioch, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...