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The Road Less Traveled: Exploring Congestion Pricing in Chicagoland
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  • July 22, 2010
In 2007, the Federal Highway Administration awarded the Illinois Tollway a grant to study the potential of congestion pricing in the Chicago region. The Tollway selected Wilbur Smith Associates, Inc., as the technical consultant for the study. The Metropolitan Planning Council, a policy research…
Placemaking at the Polish Triangle
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  • July 7, 2010
In 2009, MPC teamed up with WPB (the Special Service Area for Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods) to transform the Polish Triangle, located at the intersection of Division Street, Ashland Avenue, and Milwaukee Avenue, into a well-used public space. Through an online network group, online…
Federal Investment Reform
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  • June 23, 2010
The Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) shapes policies and supports direct investments in an economically competitive, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable Chicagoland region. Implementing this vision requires public investment and development policies spanning multiple agencies and…
Employer-assisted housing: An effective strategy to stabilize neighborhoods or overcome expensive housing markets
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  • May 18, 2010
Serious housing challenges abound throughout metropolitan Chicago, and vary from town to town. In some areas, the demand for affordable housing is greater than the supply. In others, economic development is necessary to revitalize communities and draw potential homeowners to the quality housing…
Tourism Benefits of Higher Speed Rail
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  • April 30, 2010
Illinois was awarded $1.2 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to improve the current Chicago-to-St. Louis rail corridor. This improved rail service will entice people to make the trip to Chicago that they otherwise would not have. Projections show that over the next 10…
Vision Driving Development: Logan Square Corridor Development Initiative
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  • April 16, 2010
In 2009, Chicago Ald. Rey Colón (35th Ward), in partnership with MPC, hosted the Logan Square Corridor Development Initiative (CDI). A series of three community meetings, the goal of the Logan Square CDI was to create a set of development priorities for Milwaukee Avenue and arm residents…
Home Grown: Local Housing Strategies in Action
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  • April 9, 2010
Best Practices from the Metropolitan Chicago Region This collection—compiled by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Chicago Metropolis 2020, and Metropolitan Planning Council—describes a number of housing “best practices” implemented by local governments around the Chicago…
Complete Streets: Creating safe streets for everyone
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  • March 16, 2010
Safe streets are some of our most valuable public spaces. In March, MPC and CDOT co-hosted Designing for Complete Streets, a workshop for CDOT and IDOT employess that discussed ways to design streets that are safe for all forms of traffic. This fact sheet describes the components of a Complete…
Livable Communities Act
S 1619 and HR 4690: Federal framework to promote local competitiveness and sustainability
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  • March 3, 2010
The Livable Communities Act (S 1619 and HR 4690) would provide a multi-year authorization for federal sustainability initiatives. The bill authorizes $4 billion over four years for regional planning and challenge grants to make communities more livable, and eliminates federal barriers to…
Improving Housing-Transportation Linkages: Learning from listening sessions in Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul
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  • February 23, 2010
On March 26, 2010, MPC joined representatives from the Center for Housing Policy, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. and ULI Minnesota in Live at the Forum to discuss recent listening sessions MPC and the Center convened in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., and Atlanta, Ga.. These…

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