The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is located in Suite 800 of Sears Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606. Phone: 312-454-0400. Fax: 312-454-0411. Click here for directions to Sears Tower.
Formed in 2005, CMAP integrates planning for land use and transportation in the seven counties of northeastern Illinois. The new organization combined the region's two previously separate transportation and land-use planning organizations -- Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) and the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) -- into a single agency. On September 1, 2006, the CMAP Board issued a strategic report on the agency’s vision, governance, and funding. Metropolitan Chicago will have an additional 2.8 million residents and 1.8 million jobs by 2040, and CMAP is leading the GO TO 2040 planning campaign to develop and implement strategies for addressing this growth's serious implications on quality of life -- including transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and natural resources.
CMAP operates under authorizing leglislation known as Public Act 095-0677. The agency's current by-laws were revised on November 28, 2007. The CMAP Board's membership (click for a list or a map of Board members) reflects the regional consensus that led to creation of CMAP, featuring balanced representation from across the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will. (The CMAP planning area also includes Aux Sable Township in Grundy County). The board is chaired by Gerald Bennett, mayor of Palos Hills. On April 12, 2006, CMAP hired Randall S. Blankenhorn as its first executive director to oversee operations of the unified agency.
CMAP is now developing the region's first truly comprehensive plan for land use and transportation. The agency has committees at the policy, advisory, coordinating, and working levels that play integral roles in these planning processes (click here for a graphic showing CMAP's committee structure).
(updated January 14, 2008)
Executive Committee
Gerald Bennett, chair
Joe Deal, vice chair
Elliott Hartstein, vice chair
Al Larson, at-large member
Rae Rupp Srch, at-large member
Nigel Telman, at-large member
City of Chicago Appointments
Frank Beal, executive director, Chicago Metropolis 2020
Joe Deal, director of external affairs, Office of the Mayor, City of Chicago
Raul Raymundo, chief executive officer, Resurrection Project
André Rice, president, Muller and Monroe Asset Management
Nigel Telman, partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Cook County Appointments
Alan Bennett, village trustee, Elmwood Park (Cook)
Gerald Bennett, mayor, Palos Hills (Southwest Cook)
Zenovia Evans, mayor, Riverdale (South Cook)
Russell Hartigan, supervisor, Lyons Township (West Central Cook)
Al Larson, mayor, Schaumburg (Northwest Cook)
Collar County Appointments
Roger Claar, mayor, Bolingbrook (Will)
Elliott Hartstein, mayor, Buffalo Grove (Lake)
Marilyn Michelini, mayor, Montgomery (Kane/Kendall)
Rae Rupp Srch, former mayor, Villa Park (DuPage)
Dan Shea, McHenry County board member (McHenry)
Non-voting Members
Ian Doughty, manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP (Governor's appointee)
Stephen Schlickman, executive director, Regional Transportation Authority (MPO Policy Committee)
