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Chicago Central Area Action Plan presentation

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Reinventing Public Investment: Better Choices for a Better Chicagoland series Creating Livable Communities in the Chicago Region

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CTA Board Meeting

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GO TO 2040 "Invent the Future" Workshop

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RTA Board Meeting

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GO TO 2040 "Invent the Future" Workshop

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MPC wants to know what makes your place great?

Enter the “What Makes Your Place Great?” photo and video contest to nominate your favorite neighborhood place as Chicagoland’s best. | » More

Goal-Driven, Right-Sized and Coordinated: Federal Investment Reform for the 21st Century

In the midst of an unprecedented economic downturn, community, civic, government, nonprofit and foundation leaders across metropolitan Chicago are planting encouraging seeds of innovation. MPC has released a white paper documenting some of those innovative local efforts, and is seeking more examples to further build the case for federal investment reform. | » More

Transit Innovation: Rail-Air Integration

Every two weeks, MPC uncovers best practices from around the world and delivers them right to your inbox in Talking Transit. This week, MPC explores Berlin’s commitment to improving transit accessibility to its new international airport. | » More

The Creative City: Keeping Chicago Vibrant and Viable

Bob McNulty of the Partners for Livable Communities spoke to a sold-out crowd at MPC’s first 2009 roundtable, “The Creative City: Keeping Chicago Vibrant and Viable.” | » More

Proposed 2010 HUD Budget calls for needed investment and dramatic innovation

MPC endorses HUD's 2010 budget, a "Roadmap for Transformation," which fully funds many needed housing programs and introduces demonstration grants to encourage housing and transportation coordination and local innovation. | » More

MPC Launches Reinventing Public Investment Lecture Series

At a June 5 panel discussion, co-hosted with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, MPC featured national and local experts discussing federal investment reforms necessary to create viable infrastructure in the Chicago region. | » More

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The National Housing Conference and its Center for Housing Policy return to Chicago for a national convening on “Solutions for Working Families: 2009 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy”

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On-the-ground innovations related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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Swimming upstream

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Conservation easements still the way to go for agricultural preservation

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Illinois transportation advocates: Rep. Oberstar's bill a good start toward federal transportation investment reform; more work needed

June 25, 2009

MPC strongly supports growing movement toward goal-driven, coordinated federal transportation investment policy

June 9, 2009

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