MarySue Barrett
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Making It Easier to Get to the Museum Campus Without a Car
It's already a bit of a hassle to get to and around Chicago's Museum Campus, which includes the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Adler Planetarium, and Soldier Field. In light of plans to build the Lucas Museum, as well as Rahm Emanuel's goal to increase tourism from 49 million visitors last year to 55 million in 2020, the problem could get worse.
October 15, 2014
What Good Chicagoland Regional Planning Looks Like
By now, Streetsblog readers know all about how the Illiana Tollway, a proposed highway that will see little use and cost taxpayers $500 million, has messed up our regional plan. Last October, the MPO Policy Committee of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning voted to add the Illiana to the GO TO 2040 plan, allowing the Illinois Department of Transportation to go ahead and build it, even though the project actually works against the plan's goal of focusing growth near existing infrastructure.
March 6, 2014