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Civic Innovation Hub Phase 2: Community Based Participatory Research

Residents used community-based participatory research to frame questions and plan local improvements more »

Elevated Works ETOD technical assistance

Community-based organizations have the vision and local knowledge of what their neighborhoods need. Policy and planning organizations bring expertise... more »

Transportation Equity Network

The Transportation Equity Network (TEN) is a coalition of community groups, equitable transportation advocates, civic organizations, and other... more »

'I can find out what’s really happening:' Academy provides urban planning insight
April 11, 2025

Urban planning shapes decisions about what gets built, where, and planner-driven policies and processes affect much of how we experience our neighborhoods. But typically, only professionals in the field, know much about urban planning principles and ideas or development processes. One way to change that: spread the knowledge. That’s just what the first Chicago Community Planning Academy that Chicago Architecture Center and Center for Neighborhood Technology, which wrapped in... Continue reading »

 

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Building Capacity and Connecting Communities

by CNT and members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN)
November 21, 2022

Building Capacity and Connecting Communities provides a guidebook on how to best engage vulnerable communities in transportation knowledge and capacity-building. CNT partnered with six community-based organizations, all members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) and all representing the interests of community members who are often excluded in transportation decision-making. The organizations shared their approach to capacity and knowledge building. Common themes included experience and exposure as the best teachers, the importance of increasing transportation literacy, and using lived experiences to better understand projects.

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The Climate Action Hero Awards celebrated CNT VP Jacky Grimshaw’s superpower of promoting walk/bike/transit

Streetsblog Chicago | April 24, 2025

Jacky Grimshaw wearing green cape speaks at a podium at climate museum awards

By Cameron Bolton

On Wednesday evening, Ms. Grimshaw received the award at the 2nd Annual Climate Action Hero Awards, held at The Library event space at 190 South La Salle St. in the Loop. (Climate Action Museum has its own event space at 300 S. Riverside Pl. in the West Loop, but so many people planned to attend the awards celebration that it needed to be moved to a large space.)

 

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