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Recent Work

Transportation Equity Network Bus Priority Engagements

We're bringing a racial-equity and mobility-justice approach to learning how strategies like bus stops, bus lanes, and more bus-friendly... more »

Chicago Truck Data Portal

CNT and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization counted trucks and buses throughout Chicagoland. The counts available through this open... more »

Flood and Sewage Coalition

Partnering with other groups and centering community residents’ experience to address immediate flood risks and correct long-standing inequities in... more »

Accountability Framework: a tool for more meaningful engagement and participatory democracy
November 20, 2025

Since 2019, members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) coalition have stayed true to its mission to increase interaction between BIPOC-led community-based organizations (CBOs) in historically disinvested communities with transportation decision-makers. Based in part on our experience coordinating TEN, this fall Center for Neighborhood Technology released two new tools, the Community Engagement Evaluation Framework and Our Voice, Our Budget, A guide to participatory budgeting in... Continue reading »

 

Featured Publication

Bridging Visions, Accelerating Impact: Elevated Works 2025 Impact Report

By CNT and Elevated Works
June 9, 2025

Bridging Visions, Accelerating Impact: Elevated Works ETOD Technical Assistance Program Impact, by CNT and Elevated Chicago, highlights new best practices for publicly funded community development in general and equitable transit-oriented development specifically. With case studies, a comprehensive project list and other features, this report highlights the impact of the City of Chicago’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Technical Assistance Program from 2023 to 2025. The City’s $1 million investment in the Elevated Works technical assistance program we coordinated ensured the success of 29 projects, representing $300 million invested in Chicago communities. All 29 projects made meaningful progress, with 7 reaching groundbreaking and 5 more celebrating grand openings. Beyond these individual project milestones, Bridging Visions, Accelerating Impact describes shared successes and challenges for the entire pipeline and describes how we've advocated for systems-level changes to reduce barriers for equitable transit-oriented development in Chicago moving forward. From 2023 to 2025, we partnered with Elevated Chicago , IFF , Metropolitan Planning Council , Rudd Resources...

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Scorched Earth: What Burned and Why?

Brick Grass & Steel podcast of Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University | December 14, 2025

Nina Idemudia joined podcast host Collete English Dixon on the Season 1 finale of Brick, Grass and Steel following a number of other eminent guests including Eric Klinenberg, Richard Rothstein, and Dr. Robert Bullard. On the show, Idemudia and Dixon reflect on the season’s themes of segregation, urban renewal, social infrastructure, environmental injustice, and climate resilience— and discuss how these threads set the stage for Season Two.

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