Text Box: Chaddick Update      July 13, 2007

Text Box: History of Zoning in Chicago book wins Annual Book Award! The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago, earned a first-place award from the Minnesota-based Midwest Independent Book Publisher’s Association.  The association named it the best book in its regional category at its annual banquet in St. Paul during May. The volume, written by Joseph Schwieterman and Dana Caspall (Jane Heron, editor), was the product of several years research by Chaddick students and staff.  The book was published by Lake Claremont Press in 2006.             Burnham Plan Centennial Report The Chaddick Institute continues to assist Chicago Metropolis 2020 and other organizations prepare for the Burnham Plan Centennial.  The next Partners Network meeting is scheduled to be held at DePaul on September 24th.  Please call 312-362-5731 for information about this collaborative effort.    

Text Box: Upcoming Events Please Call for Details · July 19, 2007 Municipal Design Review Event,  Glenview, 9 a.m.—11:15 a.m. · July 23, 2007 Young Professionals Social Gathering (TBA) · August 31, 2007 Technical Workshop schedule to be announced. · September 4, 2007  First day of classes during Autumn Quarter. · October 18, 2007, 7 p.m. Annual Lecture, jointly sponsored by the School of Public Service and the Chaddick Institute.          

Text Box: Workshop Planning Underway Is your community facing a vexing planning or zoning issue? If so, others could learn from your experience. Consider dropping us a line  to help us plan our Technical Workshop series for 2007-08. “We are actively reaching out to identify critical topics—no matter how large or small—for consideration during for the upcoming year,” reports director Joe Schwieterman.  Last year’s workshops attracted more than 150 registrants, representing over 100 organizations. Please pass along any ideas you might have to Joe Kearney at jkearne2@depaul.edu.

Text Box: 2007 Chaddick Award Winners Emphasize Vision, Relationship-Building The applications we received for this year’s Chaddick Development Control award exemplified the wide range of efforts underway in our region to promote effective planning and zoning. After several weeks of deliberation, our team made site visits to five communities and completed more than a dozen intensive interviews.  Two applications  rose to the top, while several others earned honorable mention awards Lake County earned the first-place award in the Vision category for the work of the Route 173 Corridor Council, a multi-jurisdictional body intended to shape future development around the I-94 interchange at Rt. 173. The Village of Orland Park earned a first-place award in the Process category for its design review process. The Village of Bartlett and The Village of Montgomery earned honorable mention awards for their work with commercial sign ordinances and naturalized storm detention basins, respectively. Congratulations to all!

Text Box: High School Program Kicks into High Gear, Receives coverage in the Chicago Reader The Chaddick Institute’s innovative program for high school students has crossed several milestones this summer.  After spending several months teaching basic planning principles to students in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, we arranged for these talented youngsters to make formal presentations to a panel of experts that included representatives from Bethel New Life and the West Madison Task Force.  “Our students really rose to the occasion and demonstrated a strong understanding of planning and development in their neighborhood,” observed program director Joe Kearney.    This evening event in late May was the latest in the series of activities that were part of our “Leading Community Change” (LCC) program. Students from four CPS high schools on the West Side learned about urban planning and studied the results of more than 500 surveys completed  by other students in their schools.“ The survey helped LCC participants understand the importance of public participation in neighborhood planning, which is often overlooked in the schools,” said Kearney. “At the same time, it offered members of the Task Force a youth perspective on key neighborhood issues.”   This summer’s program has also included a week-long session with the Big Picture High School in the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood. That program was featured in the July 13 version of the Chicago Reader newspaper. An online version is available at: http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theworks/0713/  

Text Box: News Briefs + Chaddick technical advisor Laurie Marston and senior fellow Jacques Gourguechon recently conducted a training session for the Plan Commission for LaGrange Park.   Please call if you would like to arrange for this type of event in your community. + The Institute recognized 12 new Chaddick Scholars, including two Sutker Scholarship winners, Erika Radke and Mike Frigo, at its End-of-Year event on June 14th. + In August, Professor Gloria Simo will be traveling to New Orleans to continue her community development effort in that hurricane-ravaged city. A team of talented graduate students will assist her in the Crescent City this autumn. +Chaddick launched its Oral History series in May with a panel featuring DePaul professor John Koval and consultant Mari Gallagher. The institute plans to offer several of these low-key after work events during 2007-08.  +Forty professionals attended a joint Chaddick-APA event on May 17th at DePaul’s Des Plaines campus highlighting new developments in commercial design review standards. Chaddick Technical Advisor John Hedrick served on the planning committee for the event. +Two groups of graduate students from the MPS Program as well as numerous alums will be traveling to New Orleans this autumn to support Professor Gloria Simo's ongoing community-development work in that city. Simo is busy finishing several articles on the effects of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, one of which will appear in a special edition of Public Administration Review. Gloria received a "DePaul Woman of Spirit and Action Award" for her tireless work earlier this year. +Chaddick Program Manager Joe Kearney was named Co-Chair of DePaul’s School of Public Service Alumni Association +Graduate Assistant Brian Guyer completed research for an upcoming Law Bulletin publication describing the demographic underway throughout the Chicago Region.      

Text Box: Participants in the Chaddick’s High-School “LCC” program in West Garfield Park.

Text Box:   Design Review Event, July 19 In collaboration with the Village of Glenview, we would like to alert all Chicago-area communities grappling with “design review” to a special event scheduled for Thursday, July 17  (9 a.m.-11:15 a.m.)   The event will build upon our past efforts with Scenic Illinois to expand programming related to municipal review of architecture and signage.  The event, to be held in Glenview, is free of charge, but please RSVP to jkearne2@depaul.edu

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