#APAIL22
2022 APA-IL State Conference
The Old Post Office, Chicago, IL
September 28-30, 2022
MOBILE WORKSHOPS
Come explore Chicago from an urban planner's point of view!
All mobile workshops will depart from the Old Post Office. Be aware: space is limited and workshops will sell out.
Already registered? Email contact@cgiresults.com to add mobile workshops to your registration.
Mobile Workshops Offered:
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Wed., Thurs., Fri. various times: Tour of the Old Post Office
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Wed., Sept. 28, 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM: Streets Are For Equity (S.A.F.E.) on Chicago's West Side – An equitable approach to complete streets implementation
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Wed., Sept. 28, 2:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Exploring the 606 Bloomingdale Trail: From Inception to Impact
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Thurs., Sept. 29, 8:30 AM - 11:30 PM: Master Planning at the Illinois International Port District
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Thurs., Sept. 29, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Learning from the experts: A resident-led visit to Washington Park
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Thurs., Sept. 29, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Pullman National Monument and Neighborhood
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Fri., Sept. 30, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Chicago Riverwalk Tour
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Fri., Sept. 30, 9:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Chicago Loop Alliance Tour
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Fri., Sept. 30, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: CNU: Transit-Oriented Development's Blind Spot: Deconversions, Demolitions in Transit Rich Neighborhoods
Download or view the .pdf for a printable version of the program here. This .pdf also lists all allied sessions & events taking place over September 28-30th. Scroll down this page for mobile workshops and click here for social events.
!! Please note: items on this page are subject to change !!
We will be updating this page with new information up to the conference dates.
Streets Are For Equity (S.A.F.E.) on Chicago's West Side – An equitable approach to complete streets implementation
Wednesday, Sept. 28
9:00 AM - 11:45 AM
CM | 1.5
The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has made concerted efforts to enhance walkability in the Austin community since the Vision Zero West Side Plan was released in 2019. More recent installments have been made possible through Chicago’s capital bond program, which was approved in the fall of 2020. For this tour, new infrastructure on both Central Avenue and Jackson Boulevard will be discussed to highlighting pedestrian safety and traffic calming infrastructure. The tour will also address community engagement processes and capital improvement planning, how these two steps interact. Finally, the tour will highlight Columbus Park’s refectory building as both a gathering space and an asset to the Austin community. (Photo Credit: Streetsblog Chicago)
Cost: $20.00
Speakers: Siddarth Shah, (Sam Schwartz / Pedestrian Program Manager at CDOT); Shameka Turner (Sam Schwartz / SAFE Ambassadors Program Manager at CDOT); Michael Kent (Chicago Department of Transportation)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, CTA bus
Tour of the Old Post Office
Wednesday, Sept. 28
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM (newly added)
Thursday, Sept. 29
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (newly added)
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Friday, Sept 30
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (newly added)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CM | 1.0
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) staff will provide a historical tour(s) of The Old Post Office, including the building lobby, tenant amenities on the first and second floors, and the rooftop "Meadow". The tour will include the historically preserved Postmaster General's suite, which is now part of CMAP's offices. (Photo credit: Old Post Office)
To add a tour to your registration, please email contact@cgiresults.com to add a tour to your registration!
Cost: $10.00
Speaker: Jane Grover, (CMAP)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes!
Transportation: Walk
Exploring the 606 Bloomingdale Trail: From Inception to Impact
Wednesday, Sept. 28
2:30 PM - 4:45 PM
CM | 1.0
Since opening in 2015, The 606, known as the Bloomingdale Trail has been a key community amenity to local residents traveling within the City, as well as visitors experiencing all Chicago has to offer. This unique park can teach other cities about how rails to trails projects can be transformed from idea to implementation, the resources required, and the short- and long-term impacts it can have on the community.
Tour guides will take participants from the conference to the trail via the CTA Blue Line and Divvy bikes. The tour will have attendees cycling the length of the trail while learning how the trail came to be and making key stops at murals & art installations, key buildings to highlight development patterns and gentrification concerns, landscaping and design features, and operations and maintenance needs. At the end of the tour, we'll guide participants off the trail and back onto the Blue Line, returning to the Old Post Office. (Photo Credit: Victor Grigas, Wikipedia)
Cost: $20.00
Speakers: Jane Wilberding, AICP (HNTB); Emily Egan, AICP (Village of Brookfield)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Bicycle helmets required. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, Divvy, CTA
Master Planning at the Illinois International Port District
Thursday, Sept. 29
8:30 AM - 11:30 PM
CM | 2.0
This mobile workshop will lead attendees through the development of the IIPD's first ever master plan through a panel presentation and a tour of the Illinois International Port District (by bus or boat) to showcase the Port's multi-faceted landscape and discuss how the Master Plan's recommended projects and strategies will help the IIPD to advance its priorities around economic development, recreation, community benefits, and environmental improvement.
In Spring 2022, the Illinois International Port District (IIPD), in partnership with Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), completed the IIPD Master Plan, the first such effort ever to be undertaken at the port. The plan is focused on providing the IIPD with a clear vision of how the Port should develop through 2050, with input from the surrounding communities and stakeholder groups. The outcome of this master plan will be a series of near and long-term implementable actions that will be undertaken by the port and its partners. (Photo Credit: Illinois International Port District)
Cost: $30.00
Speakers: Jack Eskin (Delta Institute); Erik Varela (Illinois International Port District), Dustin Calliari (CMAP); Elaine McKenzie, PhD (Cambridge Systematics)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, Bus
Learning from the experts: A resident-led visit to Washington Park
Thursday, Sept. 29
8:30 AM - 11:30 PM
CM | 1.0
When people hear "Washington Park,” they typically think of the park and not the people who live in the neighborhood - a neighborhood that was scarred by the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Robert Taylor housing projects. A recent planning process, initiated by Elevated Chicago, focused on TOD adjacent to the Garfield Green Line station. Planners from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) kept hearing, "Not another plan. Don’t come here and plan for us."
Here’s your chance to not only visit the neighborhood but hear from some long-time residents and led the charge to stop planning and, instead, get to work to implement those past plans. Learn from their expertise in community building and hear what planners often get wrong or overlook. This is a unique opportunity you don’t want to miss! (Photo credit: CMAP)
Cost: $20.00
Speakers: Lindsay Bayle, (CMAP); Uri Pachter, (MUSE Community + Design)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, Bus
Pullman National Monument and Neighborhood
Thursday, Sept. 29
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
CM | 2.0
Join the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development's team working with communities in the Far South planning region for a tour of the Pullman neighborhood. Built in 1880, Pullman was the first model, planned industrial community in the United States.
The tour will consist of a visit of the Pullman National Monument and a walking tour of the neighborhood. The urban planning history of the area will be discussed with the contrasting the built environment of North and South Pullman, the area's successful resistance to slum clearance, and the creation of the national monument as a community-driven effort. The tour will also discuss de-industrialization and the redevelopment of a steel site into Pullman Park and Pullman Crossing. (Photo credit: NPS Photo/Daniel Pels)
Cost: $30.00
Speakers: Michael Penicnak, (City of Chicago); Jasmine Gunn (City of Chicago); Erika Sellke (City of Chicago)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, Bus
Chicago Riverwalk Tour
Friday, Sept. 30
9:00 AM - 11:15 AM
CM | 2.0
Join us on a tour of Chicago’s downtown riverwalks. Starting from the north end of the Old Post Office, We will explore 50 years worth of publicly accessible river edge paths along the Chicago River in downtown Chicago following along the south and main branches of the Chicago river to the Michigan Avenue Bridge and returning to the old post office to discuss upcoming expansion and development plans further south. Along the way, this tour will highlight the challenges of coordinating private planned developments, the elements of the publicly owned main branch riverwalk and planned improvements. (Photo credit: "City Winery at the Chicago Riverwalk" by Chris Rycroft is licensed under CC BY 2.0)
Cost: $20.00
Speaker: Benet Haller (Cook County), Bradley Roback (City of Chicago)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk / CTA
Loop Mural Tour
Friday, Sept. 30
9:00 AM - 11:15 AM
CM | 2.0
“To approach a city as if it were a… work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.” - Jane Jacobs
Public art is not merely set decoration, but a key part of making thriving, livable places, however the now-common practice of street art as an economic development tool has its limitations. This walking tour will be both a celebration and critique of some of the Loop’s past and current art installations and will explore why, like Jacobs warned, to see a city as art is misguided. Plus, discover the site of Chicago’s original Chinatown, see views unchanged for a century, walk down hidden alleys, and maybe even see the Loop in new ways. (Photo credit: "Loop" by Terence Faircloth, Loop Worker is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / A derivative from the original work)
Cost: $10.00
Speaker: Vitaliy Vladimirov (Resource Innovations)
Details: Meet 10 minutes before departure. Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk
Transit-Oriented Development's Blind Spot: Deconversions, Demolitions in Transit Rich Neighborhoods
Friday, Sept. 30
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mobile Workshop
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CNU Happy Hour
CM | 1.5, CM | 1.5 Equity
This mobile workshop is the second portion of the CNU "conference within a conference" (the first is a session from 1-2 pm, Friday, Sept. 30 at the Old Post Office).
Immediately following the Congress for New Urbanism's (CNU) panel discussion, we will travel to a neighborhood of Chicago that is experiencing the issue of deconversions–Logan Square. This workshop will take the Blue Line to the California stop, where we will walk through streets and neighborhoods where this loss of density is clear. Our walk will lead us to the 606 Bloomingdale Trail, whose construction has exacerbated housing issues adjacent to the trail.
Cost: $20.00
CNU Happy Hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - All Are Welcome!
Pilot Project, 2140 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
All are welcome to close out the APA IL conference with a happy hour in Logan Square hosted by CNU Chicago. Those who attend the mobile workshop will receive a free drink ticket! The Lonesome Rose will be close to the end of the tour, making it convenient for mobile workshop participants to join CNU's festivities. (Photo credit: "Chicago- Wicker Park 01" by discosour is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)
Happy Hour Cost: $0
Speakers: Nicholas Zettel, (1st Ward Office), Lisette Castaneda, (LUCHA), Christian Diaz (Palenque LSNA)
Details:
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Meet at 2:00 PM at the Old Post Office
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Group will promptly depart for CTA trains at 2:15.
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Walking tour will take place 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (happy hour to follow)
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Please be sure to wear your walking shoes and dress for the weather!
Transportation: Walk, CTA
