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Take opportunity to make Illinois a true innovator

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• Aug 10, 2009

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…

South 'burbs show how it's done

• By Angie Leyva
• Jul 28, 2009

Around here, towns don't usually work together. They tend to compete -- for the Wal-Mart, for highway interchanges, for federal dollars. You name it, they fight over it. Towns working together? That is the kind of thing you would expect out in California -- a bunch of free spirits holding…

South suburbs honored for housing collaboration

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• Jun 29, 2009

In January, the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association invited its member communities to discuss a novel approach to housing issues -- municipal cooperation. At the end of that meeting, approximately 20 towns signed up to explore this idea a little further. Just five months later, the…

Five cool things Chicago has done to make housing better

• By Angie Leyva
• Jun 29, 2009

While you sit at your computer reading this most-excellent blog, housing experts and policy wonks from across the nation are sitting in the Palmer House Hilton, wearing nametags and collecting swag from a conference called Solutions for Working Families, put on by the National Housing Conference…

A helping hand

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• Jun 14, 2009

Tara Morin and Coleman Hillstrom are refinishing the woodwork after discarding the green shag carpeting and re-tiling the bathroom in their one-bedroom condo. Morin, like many first-time buyers, had cobbled together savings and gifts from parents last year to buy the unit near the home of…

Small investments in your community make a difference

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• Jun 3, 2009

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…

Accountability Aim of Illinois Transportation Bill

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• May 15, 2009

Any discussion about capital investment in Illinois these days—and there is much—follows one of two tracks: The first is the dire need for massive infrastructure improvements and expansion, an undertaking that could partially be funded by increasing the state motor fuel tax. The…

Supply and demand driving gas prices

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• May 14, 2009

ELMHURST, Ill. (CBS) ¯ CBS Have you filled up your tank lately? Were you surprised by how much you paid? If you're worried about a return of $4-a-gallon gas, you might want to listen to what Chief Correspondent Jay Levine has to say. It may not be a rerun of last year but it's sure starting…

Slow zone

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• May 11, 2009

Chicago's economy has long been tied to its role as the nation's transportation hub, a position threatened by the recession. While moving goods and passengers by air, truck, rail and barge accounts for barely 3% of Chicago's economic output, the transportation and warehousing sector draws…

Water, water everywhere

• By Mandy Burrell Booth
• May 6, 2009

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…

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