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Moving forward — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. Many actors—governments, nonprofit organizations, property owners, community groups—have a stake in and some control over our rivers. Coordination is key. Yet, coordinated planning, investment and management is a fundamental necessity for achieving Our Great Rivers. Coordination needs to be somebody's job. An existing entity may be able to handle coordination, but it is equally likely that a new entity will need to be created and empowered to pursue this vision. By 20...
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Library — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. This library includes all of the reports, plans, legislation and raw data that the Great Rivers Chicago team spent months combing through to better understand the current state of the Chicago, Calumet and Des Plaines rivers systems and their needs for the future. The library also provides resources upon resources for birding, boating and recreating on our rivers. To narrow down your search, try one of the categories at right. August 5, 2015. August 5, 2015.
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Vision in action — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. While we imagined the future of our rivers at a systemwide level, we also wanted to explore how the vision could come to life at specific locations. Each meeting also identified action items: the next steps to make the vision a reality. From securing funding to convening broader local stakeholder groups to sustain momentum, the Great Rivers Chicago team is committed to building the local capacity needed to see these visions through to completion. 1 Des Plaines River.
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Stories — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. As the Great Rivers Chicago team continues to gather your input and examine existing plans, we're beginning to see recurring themes: Traffic management, water quality, residential development and business development on and near our rivers are all topics that people want to talk and learn more about. To prepare everyone to think about options for the future, we've put together a feature story on each of these issues. Enjoy! A project of the City of Chicago.
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Vision — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. By 2040, Chicago’s rivers will be inviting, productive and living,. Providing everyone with opportunities to find or create their own place, their own experience and their own community on our rivers. Our rivers will invite us to engage in stewardship, recreation and work. Our rivers will connect people to nature, in the city and beyond, and function as thriving ecosystems. Our rivers will be the best of us, where communities, habitats and businesses prosper together.
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River map — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. Stay up to date and keep track of our progress. A project of the City of Chicago. Friends of the Chicago River. And Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Through generous support from ArcelorMittal. The Chicago Community Trust. Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. Letter from Mayor Emanuel. Letter from the team. Our Great Rivers is the first-ever unifying and forward-looking vision for all three of Chicago’s rivers. It also begins the process of looking upstream, downstream and across the banks to connect Chicagoans with forest preserves and suburban communities that will be vital partners in realizing our collective vision. That vision—by 2040, Chicago’s rivers will be inviting, productive and living. As a result of decades of...
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Calendar — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. The Great Rivers Chicago calendar displays any and all events past and future that our team has organized and/or will participate in. Many of these events are open to the public—please come! Mdash;but in some instances our team is invited to meet with a specific group or organization. For transparency and to demonstrate the breadth of audiences with which we're engaging, we've included those private, closed events on this list as well. Take a look at past events!
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Goals — Great Rivers Chicago: Reconnecting Chicago and our Rivers
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Reconnecting Chicago and our rivers. Aspirational visions of our rivers' future, looking out to 2020. With recommended actions for the public and government to take. This is not a description of current conditions, but a vision of the future, and the full realization of the idea in question. We timed the goals based on a combination of feasibility and priority. Activities to draw people to our rivers. Safe rivers and riverfronts. A unified brand and comprehensive wayfinding. Our rivers will be productive...
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