LVEJO’s efforts to improve public transit Published in Institutions & Infrastructures on April 15, 2010 by Mackel Garrison

Public transit is basic urban infrastructure, though not every community in Chicago enjoys adequate services.  Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) works to better understand the transportation needs of our community.  Our work around public transit began back in [...]

Dozens of U.S. Transit Workers Join House, Senate Sponsors of Bipartisan Bill That Would Create, Save Thousands of Jobs

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Congressmen Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) were joined by transit workers from St. Louis and across the country at a rally Tuesday, March 16, to promote key transportation legislation that will [...]

Residents across the seven-county region helped to “Invent the Future” from May to September 2009 via public outreach by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), which is developing GO TO 2040, the official comprehensive plan to guide development and infrastructure.

Click here to read a CMAP news release summarizing this phase of public input. [...]