Text Box: Chaddick Update      March 23, 2007

Text Box: Planning for Participation We expect a full house at our final technical workshop of the year on May 9th, “Working with Municipal Staff, Board Members and Elected Officials to Support Comprehensive Plans.”  Our panel will explore “best practices” to assure that plans result in tangible action. To register, please contact Joe Kearney at jkearne2@depaul.edu or 312/362-5732.                                  “Participation in our recent workshops has been extraordinary”, reports director Joe Schwieterman. The past four events have attracted a total of more than 120 registrants, representing more than 30 communities.  At January’s event, focused on demographic change, John Koval, Ph.D. , DePaul (pictured below), Jim Cox , Village of Skokie, and Jacques Gourguechon,  Camiros, Ltd., outlined practical ways to manage changes in the socioeconomic composition of suburban communities. of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development”  

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Text Box: ABOVE: CEO of Stateway Associates, James Miller (facing group) explains the specifics of redevelopment financing in Chicago to visiting Irish governmental officials.

Text Box: Upcoming Events Please call for details · 3/30/07 Municipal nominations due for Annual Chaddick Development Control Awards · 4/9/07 Young Professionals Event; 5:45 p.m. · 4/10/07 “History of Zoning in Chicago” ; Chicago Architecture Foundation (four week course) · 4/11/07 DePaul Scholarship Luncheon; noon. · 5/6/07 Special event to showcase the book “New Chicago”; noon · 5/9/07 Technical Workshop: “Working with Municipal Staff, Board Members and Elected Officials to Support Comprehensive Plans.” 9-noon; $45. Email jkearne2@depaul.edu to register. · 5/12/07 Young Professionals Case Study: Park Forest, IL; 2-5 p.m. · 6/07 Chaddick End-of-Year reception, details TBA      

Text Box: Young Planners Spring into Action Our conference room will be busy on weekends this spring as high-schools from around the region gather for day-long sessions to explore planning and development in the city. The newly created Leading Community Change program will give 30 students from four West-side high schools a chance to participate in a six-part educational series.  After an initial February gathering in West Garfield Park (pictured below), the students will be coming downtown, finishing their studies in June, when they will make presentations to the West Madison Advisory Task Force. “We’ve forged an excellent partnership with Bethel New Life, Inc. and the CPS Service-Learning Initiative on this effort.“ says Chaddick Program Manager Joe Kearney.         A group of students from the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood will also join us for a separate week-long program in June.  All of these efforts are made possible by a generous gift from the Chaddick Foundation.       Text Box: LEFT: Assistant Director Gloria Simo  (right)  and Metropolitan Planning students (l-r) Dan Nakahara, Kathy Von Ohlen and Art Orowski chat at the jointly-sponsored Chaddick-UIC-APA lecture on sprawl on January 30th.  Around 20 DePaul students attended.

Text Box: Celebrating the Burnham Centennial Chaddick is grateful for a $25,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust allowing us to continue our involvement in the 2009 Burnham Centennial Initiative.  We look forward to expanding our support for the initiative and working closely with Chicago Metropolitan 2020, the project leader.  We thank Susan Aaron and Liz Wilp for their tireless work on this effort.  Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development” Dealing with Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Developmenf Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development”  

Text Box: Graduate Students Brian Guyer and Lauren Pike joined staffer Joe Kearney (not pictured) in a visit to Dallas in late January.  The team assisted Joe Schwieterman during his presentation to a Texas High Speed Rail conference.

Text Box: From Blue Books to Green Plan Chaddick is going green!  A growing number of graduate students are working on projects exploring the benefits and costs of emerging “green” technologies. In addition, more than ninety professionals gathered on campus last month for a workshop on green operations, procurement and building management. This event was sponsored jointly with ShoreBank, the City of Chicago’s Department of Environment and the Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance.   Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development” Dealing with the Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development”  

Text Box: Scholars Step Up Their Skills A dozen students are working to fulfill the requirements to become a Chaddick Scholar. Several are working with Professor Gloria Simo and Joe Schwieterman on graduate-level research projects.  All hope to celebrate the completion of their requirements at our end-of-year reception in June. Several scholars stepped aboard our chartered mini-bus for a day-long “Mobile Workshop” exploring community development in the city, an event co-sponsored by the Public Services Graduate Program Alumni Association in December.

Text Box: Warm Up to a Chaddick Award! As spring approaches, our staff is once again eagerly anticipating the Chaddick Development Control Awards, one of program highlights of our year.  Please check our web site for information about the upcoming nomination deadline on March 31.  All units of government are eligible for consideration.     

Text Box: News Briefs +Articles written by Joe Schwieterman appearing in Planning and Crain’s Chicago Business have generated numerous calls + Gloria Simo’s assistance to communities in Southwestern Louisiana resulted in press coverage in that hurricane-ravaged region.          +Schwieterman testified before a the U.S. House Subcommittee on Transit and Highways on January 24; his comments appear on our web site.    Watch our website for late-breaking news about new activities.  We’ll be making announcements about an evening “Oral History” program scheduled for May, our Chaddick Young Professional series for graduate students, and Professor Simo’s continuing work in New Orleans.

Text Box: Did You Know?     - Chaddick workshop participants receive AICP continuing education credit through the American Planning Association.            - The Public Service Graduate Program at DePaul has a concentration in metropolitan planning.      - Our book, The Politics of Place: The History of Zoning Chicago, will soon enter its second printing at Lake Claremont Press.          Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development” Dealing with the Effects of Demographic Change in Municipal Planning and Development”