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Strengthening Chicago’s New Mixed-Income Communities
Reconnecting Neighborhoods is supporting residents of new Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation mixed-income communities in three Chicago neighborhoods – the Near West, Mid-South, and Near North – by identifying and attracting transportation, infrastructure, and retail investment. Starting in 2007, a two-year community planning process sponsored by the Regional Transportation Authority and City of Chicago led to a strategy for each neighborhood, with specific recommendations ranging from new El stations, street cars, and improved streets that balance the needs of drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to new retail corridors and bus routes. The Metropolitan Planning Council facilitated the community engagement process and, starting in 2009, is partnering with community, private, and public sector leaders to implement improvements that will connect these once-isolated neighborhoods back to the fabric of the city.
Reconnecting Neighborhoods fact sheet
Articles
- Calling all visionaries: MPC seeks nominations for 2010 Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning
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- Get out your blueprints and sharpen those PowerPoints, because it’s once again time to submit nominations for MPC’s Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning, which, since 1988, has encouraged sensible growth by honoring innovative and visionary planning efforts in the Chicago…
- New year, big plans at MPC
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- Just weeks into a new decade, MPC staff already has plans – big and small – for how their work will help improve the metropolitan region in 2010.
Kristi DeLaurentiis This year my resolution is to help foster linkages and promote collaboration between MPC and its partners throughout the…
Recent federal announcements may bode well for the region-
- “We don’t have enough direct bus transportation. Everything feels just a little bit out of the way,” complained a resident of Chicago’s Near West community. These sentiments were echoed by many others living in Chicago’s Near West, Near North, and Mid-South communities…
MPC by the numbers, 2009-
- From jobless rates to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, from Illinois’ budget gap to foreclosure trends, news reports in 2009 were awash with gloomy figures. It’s been a challenging year, and the numbers don’t lie.
Yet, fortunately, they rarely tell the whole…
- Chicago Community Databook
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In coordination with the 2016 Fund for Chicago Neighborhoods, during the summer of 2008, MPC collected, analyzed and mapped data for communities that stood to be the most affected if Chicago won the bid. Despite the International Olympic Committee's decision, MPC’s Community Databook remains a useful resource for these communities, which are ripe for redevelopment.
Multimedia
Reconnecting Neighborhoods: Final Recommendations Report-
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- March 24, 2009
- The Final Recommendations for the Reconnecting Neighborhoods study were prepared through the efforts of the City of Chicago, the Regional Transportation Authority, CTA, Metra, and the project planning consultants, the Metropolitan Planning Council, HNTB Corporation and MKC Associates. Many…
- The RTA Strategic Plan
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- Publication
- posted by Peter Skosey
- March 3, 2006
- RTA Launches New Strategic Planning Effort On March 3, 2006, RTA Chairman Jim Reilly presented an overview of the RTA Strategic Plan to Business Leaders for Transportation. To view the presentation, click here. To view the one page summary of the project, click here. To read the RTA press…
- Looking at Illinois FIRST and Beyond
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- Publication
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- January 30, 2004
- Highway and RTA Transit funding Year 4 Progress Report
- Public Housing in the Public Interest: Examining the Chicago Housing Authority's Relocation Efforts
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- Publication
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- posted by Robin Snyderman
- February 1, 2002
- The third in MPC's series of Fact Sheets examining the Chicago Housing Authority Transformation Plan.
- Public Housing in the Public Interest: Examining the Chicago Housing Authority's Proposed Service Connector Model
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- Publication
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- posted by Robin Snyderman
- June 1, 2001
- Chicago Housing Authority Transformation Plan Fact Sheet No. 2
Links
- Reconnecting America
- Reconnecting America is a national nonprofit working to integrate transportation systems and the communities they serve, with the goal of generating lasting public and private returns, improving economic and environmental efficiency, and giving consumers more housing and mobility choices. More info »
- Sustainable Communities Initiative
- On June 16, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U. S. Department of Transportation announced an interagency partnership to improve access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide. This is a new opportunity to realize some of Reconnecting Neighborhoods’ recommendations. More info »
- Reconnecting Neighborhoods (external website)
- The official Reconnecting Neighborhoods web site provides updates on the project’s progress, in-depth background information about the two-year community planning process that led to the final recommendations report, and links to resources on Chicago’s mixed-income communities, transit-oriented development, and more. More info »
- Transportation for America
- MPC is a member of Transportation for America, a broad coalition seeking to align national, state, and local transportation policies with an array of issues such as economic opportunity, climate change, energy security, health, housing and community development. Subscribe to T4America’s blog to stay up to date on federal legislation related to these goals. More info »
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Collaborators
Partners
City of Chicago
HNTB
Regional Transportation Authority
Mid South Task Force
Near North Task Force
Near West Task Force
Expert Panel
Intergovernmental Advisory Committee
Funders
The 2016 Fund for Chicago Neighborhoods
JPMorgan Chase
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
