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Cook County Releases Economic Development Agenda
On April 4, 2013, Cook County released an economic development agenda, Partnering for Prosperity . Eight of the nine agenda strategies directly align with GO TO 2040 recommendations. The following Policy Update provides a brief overview of the agenda, which addresses the county’s role in the metropolitan Chicago economy, and describes the many areas in which Partnering for...
White House Releases FY 2014 Budget Proposal
On April 10, 2013, President Obama released his budget proposal for federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. Over the next ten years, the budget would increase revenues by about $1.1 trillion and cut ten-year spending by $265 billion, thereby reducing the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion compared to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) baseline projections. CMAP is monitoring the...
Skilled Workforce is Needed to Grow Manufacturing Cluster in Region
Metropolitan Chicago’s manufacturing cluster employs one in eight workers in the region. Although manufacturers lost one-third of their workforce between 2001 and 2011, productivity actually increased over that same period. These seemingly contradictory trends reveal how dramatically the region’s manufacturing cluster has changed in recent years. CMAP’s new manufacturing...
Investments in Innovation Can Fuel Region’s Manufacturing Rebound
Manufacturing accounts for a disproportionate component of the nation’s innovative activity: While it makes up only 11 percent of GDP, 90 percent of all the nation’s patents relate to manufacturing. In Illinois the link between manufacturing and innovation is even more pronounced. Nationwide 68 percent of all private research and development (R&D) spending comes from manufacturing firms;...
Freight Drill-Down Analyzes Regional Infrastructure, Innovation, and Workforce
GO TO 2040 calls for strategically organizing the region around its existing and emerging clusters of specialization to better compete in the national and international marketplace. The plan directs CMAP, with the support of its partners, to perform “drill-down” analyses into specific industry clusters, including freight, advanced manufacturing, and biotech/biomed. CMAP has...
Commission Examines Strategies for Coordinated Investments Across School Districts
Local service coordination, and where appropriate consolidation, is one of several coordinated investment strategies emphasized in GO TO 2040 for local governmental units to create efficiencies and adapt to a future of increasingly limited financial resources. In northeastern Illinois, 307 public school districts collect nearly half of all revenues from local governments (over $18.5...
Metropolis Strategies Publishes Green Cluster Study
A new report from Metropolis Strategies provides some ideas for nurturing industry clusters in our region, one of GO TO 2040’srecommendations to support economic innovation. Prepared by RW Ventures and Innovation Network for Communities, “ The Chicago Region’s “Green” Economic Opportunities ” reportidentifies several opportunities for economic innovation in the...
American Community Survey Helps Chart Success and Challenges of GO TO 2040 Implementation
On December 8, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau published the 2006-2010 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates, which provide a rolling sample of detailed population characteristics over the past several years. The ACS data is available to the public. A more detailed analysis and instructions for accessing the data can be found on CMAP’s Census page . In...
State and Local Governments Continue Progress in Sharing Data, Coordinating Services
In June 2011 , CMAP’s Policy Updates blog covered efforts by the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago to support efficient governance by improving access to information and coordinating across government bodies, helping to save money and improve service delivery. In the months since, progress has been made by all three units of government to further those efforts. ...
Census 2010 Data Highlights Minority Population Growth in Metro Areas
Metropolitan regions drive the U.S. economy, and their residents are among the nation's most valuable assets. The Brookings Institution recently released analysis of racial and ethnic demographic shifts in the country’s top 100 metropolitan regions based on 2010 Census data. Findings include that 98 percent of population growth in large metro areas between 2000 and 2010 is...
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The LTA home page has details of activities sponsored by the HUD Sustainable Communities grant to CMAP for support of community projects that advance the principles of GO TO 2040. Planning assistance and grants for local projects across metropolitan Chicago are now available through the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Community Planning Program and CMAP Local Technical Assistance Program at www.rtachicago.com/applications.
An interactive map of local case studies describes projects and people that exemplify the goals and objectives of GO TO 2040.
CMAP's Local Ordinances and Toolkits program provides resources to municipalities interested in pursuing policies that are aligned with GO TO 2040 recommendations.
