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Take opportunity to make Illinois a true innovator
It's been about five months since federal stimulus dollars were dispersed, and everyone's analyzing whether the funding is creating enough — and the right — jobs. Recovery funding was intended to boost a weak market, so counting jobs is one measure of success. But the American Recovery…
Small investments in your community make a difference
Though your mail gets delivered to Dolton, Tinley Park, or Lansing, chances are you consider “home” to be much broader – a mental map of all of the great places you visit, whether once a week or on special occasions, in the south suburbs and throughout Chicagoland. That’s…
Water, water everywhere
Melting ice caps, slumping economy, H1N1 … the world is a scary place these days but not every tight spot comes with a doomsday. Case in point: water in Illinois. Josh Ellis is a Community Development Associate at the Metropolitan Planning Council who specializes in - you guessed…
NWI also making no little plans
The man behind the oft-quoted wisdom "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood ... " will be commemorated this year during the centennial celebration of the "Plan of Chicago," more popularly known as the "Burnham Plan." One of the best-known and respected development plans…
Roosevelt's New Deal vs. Stimulus Package
Visit Chicago Public Radio's Web site to listen to this story. Many grand elements of our shared landscape are legacies of the New Deal, the economic stimulus program of the Great Depression. Take Outer Lake Shore Drive, for example, the State Street subway or the lodge at downstate Starved…
Chicago area is ready for 2016 Olympics
As the members of the International Olympic Committee wrap up their visit to Chicago, I hope each of them carries home memories of a metropolitan region rich with diverse neighborhoods; savvy, hardworking people; and strong assets, including our infrastructure backbone. It will take not just…
Chicago suburban downtowns: Officials find ways to lure businesses
kie's new twist on attracting restaurants and retailers to its struggling downtown made all the difference to Robyn Mendheim, who plans to use a village "rebate" of up to $50,000 to rehab the interior of a century-old building. "Without the village's help, this wouldn't have been possible," to…
Obama and the Cities
The new president has a whole new notion of urban policy. For the past 40 years, through the Great Society initiatives of Lyndon Johnson, the Enterprise Zone programs of HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, and the Hope VI public housing projects of the past decade and a half, urban policy in America has…
Could suburbs get more transportation cash?
The state Senate's two leaders are open to changes in the way the government divides transportation funding, which now sends the lion's share to downstate Illinois. Speaking at a Metropolitan Planning Council event Friday, Senate President John Cullerton and Republican Leader Christine Radogno…
CHANGE Illinois Gives Voters a Toll-Free Hotline to Ask Legislators to Limit Campaign Contributions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The CHANGE Illinois coalition on Monday opened a toll-free hotline for Illinoisans to call 1-800-719-3020 and tell their legislators to enact campaign contribution limits. Callers to the CHANGE Illinois Hotline will be connected directly to…

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