On May 16, 2012, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood released a letter outlining the Administration’s priorities on federal surface transportation reauthorization.  This letter describes the Administration’s positions on the transportation reauthorization bills passed by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives , currently the subject of the House-Senate... Read More

CMAP and the City of Chicago, working with the nonprofit groups Global Philanthropy Partnership and the Civic Consulting Alliance, have completed a regional inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the year 2010. The study continues an effort to catalog emissions at regular intervals to understand trends in metropolitan Chicago. It calculates the carbon dioxide and other GHGs... Read More

On May 11, 2012, the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) released its two-year strategic plan, “ Chicago Forward .”  The plan has six themes: Safety First, Rebuild and Renew, Choices for Chicago, Serving Chicagoans, A More Sustainable City, and Fuel Our Economy.  Twenty-eight policies are organized under these six categories, as well as over 170 action items. ... Read More

GO TO 2040 establishes coordinated strategies that help the region’s communities address transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and other quality-of-life issues.  The metropolitan Chicago region’s ability to implement GO TO 2040 is significantly shaped by decisions made at the state level.  While the Illinois budget's largest spending areas... Read More

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... Read More