New! Context Sensitive Design Strategy Paper
We're taking your comments on issues that shape quality of life for residents of metropolitan Chicago. The GO TO 2040 team is posting a steady stream of GO TO 2040 strategy papers. These reports will help define the regional plan's approach to dozens of important issues that shape our lives each day. Recent ones include Managed Lanes, Inclusionary Zoning, Urban Design, and Brownfields. Let us know what you think by responding to questions posed in the strategy papers, and by posting your own comments. |
¡En español: VAMOS AL AÑO 2040!
Para planear un futuro próspero para nuestra región, la Agencia Metropolitana de Chicago para la Planeación (CMAP) ha lanzado VAMOS AL AÑO 2040, la primera campaña verdaderamente integral de planeación. El plan guiará el crecimiento para los condados de Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry y Will por el resto del siglo. Además del uso del suelo y la transportación, VAMOS AL AÑO 2040 también se relaciona con otros factores que afectan la calidad de vida, incluyendo el medio ambiente, desarrollo económico, vivienda y servicios humanos como la educación, salud y otros servicios sociales. VAMOS AL AÑO 2040 y “Imagínese…” |
Click to Get Involved!
CMAP's outreach team has posted a new page that gives you "one-click shopping" options for getting involved in the GO TO 2040 planning campaign. You, your neighbors, and your organizations can help convene a "Community Conversation." Or invite GO TO 2040 into your schools, where we can help by sponsoring teacher curriculum workshops and co-sponsoring a "Bold Ideas" contest. You can also co-sponsor participation in festivals and special events. So just click here and Get Involved! |
CMAP Board approves GO TO 2040 Regional Vision
On June 11, 2008, the CMAP Board voted unanimously to approve the GO TO 2040 Regional Vision (opens 3.2MB PDF). The GO TO 2040 planning process began in September 2007 with development of the Regional Vision for 2040. The vision was drafted by CMAP and its stakeholders and then revised based on extensive public input via committees and surveys. Click here to read more about that process and the resulting Regional Vision. CMAP and its partners are now in an intensive research phase to develop a set of indicators for predicting and measuring economic, environmental, social, and cultural variables that affect quality of life. The public can provide input during July and August 2008 in a series of Indicators Workshops. The indicators will be used to gauge the effects of strategies that are being considered to implement the Regional Vision. Click here to read more about the GO TO 2040 planning process (opens 147KB PDF). |
Carpenter Elementary 4th graders GO TO 2040
Carpenter Elementary School in Park Ridge is one of three schools selected to pilot test the "Bold Ideas" challenge, as part of the GO TO 2040 campaign. Teacher Matthew Toren and art teacher Fred Klonsky collaborated to help the 4th graders explore their community and understand its connection to the region. Sudents were challenged to imagine their community in the year 2040. Click here to see their projects and related videos.
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Whitney Young students share Bold Ideas
NEWS FROM GO TO 2040. . . The "Bold Ideas" contest at Whitney Young High School has been a major success. Click here for photos and videos of the winning contestants, and watch that page for materials that they and their fellow students submitted. The |
GO TO 2040 is launched
For immediate release Monday, March 24, 2008 Press Contact Tom Garritano (312 386 8609 or tgarritano@cmap.illinois.gov)GO TO 2040 planning campaign asks residents to imagine a brighter future Grant to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning from The Chicago Community Trust will |
WTTW Chicago Tonight and other GO TO 2040 media coverage
Executive director Randy Blankenhorn was interviewed on WTTW's Chicago Tonight as part of the agency's launch of GO TO 2040, Metropolitan Chicago’s first truly comprehensive regional planning campaign. |
Take the GO TO 2040 survey
With its GO TO 2040 plan and campaign, CMAP wants people across northeastern Illinois including decision makers in the public and private sectors to think like residents of the future. Our desire is for you to virtually "GO TO 2040" by |
Chicago Matters: Growing Forward
Now in its 18th year, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series, Chicago Matters: Growing Forward has been launched to examine how the choices we make today impact our environment and the future of our region. All of the topics that will be covered in the series are integral to the work of CMAP. Please see http://www.chicagomatters.org for the programming list and more information. |
Imagine that . . .
GO TO 2040 wants people across northeastern Illinois -- including decision makers in the public and private sectors -- to think like residents of the future. Our desire is for you to virtually "GO TO 2040" by becoming part of our planning process. Click here to read more. |
About those photos . . .
You may have noticed the striking slide show of photographs that greet you on GO TO 2040's main page. Those pictures were taken by residents across metropolitan Chicago who entered our Images of Northeastern Illinois photo contest. http www.cmap.illinois.gov photo 2007.aspx |