Planning Chicago

D. Bradford Hunt Dean, College of Professional Studies

Vice Provost, Adult and Experiential Learning

presentation at the

Civic Lab

Monday, February 24 2013

Chicago Plans Downtown

Comprehensive Planning for the city’s future, 1958-1974

The Heyday of Modern Planning in Chicago 1958 - 1973

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1958 1966 1973

Richard J. Daley Consolidates Planning Power, 1956-1957

• Creates Public Building Commission of Chicago (1956)

• Enacts Zoning Reform (1957)

• Creates Department of City Planning (1957)

Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, 1958

• “Compact, accessible Loop”

• 50,000 new residents (middle-class)

• New University of Illinois campus

• Limited clearance and displacement

• Endorsed Transit expansion

Growth Coalition

Mayor Richard J. Daley and city leaders viewing model of 1958 Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago

Railroad Space in Chicago, 1930 Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2004

Downtown Living: Marina City (1963)

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University of Illinois Campus, no date, 1970s

New University of Illinois Campus (1964)

Transit Investment, 1950s

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The 1966 Comprehensive Plan of Chicago

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• Covered the whole city

• $500 million in capital spending per year

• Follow-on regulatory framework plans

• Chicago 21 plan for central area

The 1966 Comprehensive Plan of Chicago

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Follow-on Regulatory Plan: Illinois Center (1968)

Illinois Central Rail Yards, 1947

Illinois Center and Lakeshore East, 2012

Follow-on Regulatory Plans: Lakefront Plan (1972) and Riveredge Plan (1974)

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Chicago 21

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• Bold plans for downtown living

• Bold Plans for Near South (Dearborn Park)

• Transit ideas

• State Street Mall

“Chicago 21” (1973) and Dearborn Park

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Mayor Harold Washington and Jobs

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Goose Island, Planned

Manufacturing District, 2012

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City of Chicago

Industrial Corridors,

2011

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Industrial Corridors:

Calumet Area Land Plan

2001

Planning for Jobs: Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant

Calumet Industrial Corridor

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Chicago Plans the Neighborhoods

Race, class, and the neighborhoods

Neighborhood Planning: Urban Renewal

Lake Meadows (complete) and future South Commons site, 1955 Urban Renewal on Chicago’s South Side, 1954

The Woodlawn

Organization

Neighborhood Planning: Backlash against Top-Down Planning and the

Rise of Community-Based Planning

Neighborhood Planning: Uptown, Voice of the People

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Englewood: Retail decline

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Halsted Street near 63rd Street, 2000

Englewood: Kennedy-King Community College,

2008

Englewood: Kennedy-King Community College,

2008

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) New Communities Program

“Quality-of-Life” planning process

Englewood Quality of Life Plan, 2005

Englewood Quality of Life Plan, 2005

Englewood: Kennedy-King Community College,

2008

Chicago Returns to Downtown

Central Area Plan 2003

Central Area Action Plan 2009

Chicago Central Area Plan, 2003

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Office Growth in West Loop, Chicago Central Area Plan, 2003

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West Loop Transportation Center, 2003

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West Loop Transportation Center, 2003

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Transitway under Monroe Street, 2003

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Transitways, 2003 Central

Area Plan

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Central Area Action Plan, 2009 Transportation needs

Olympic Bid

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Challenges for the present and future

Will the city rise to them?

Population, Race, and Immigration

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Population Change,

2000-2010

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Tax Increment Financing Districts

2011

Mayor Emanuel and Planning

• Budget for Department of Housing and Economic Development (DHED) down by 40% in recent years

• Recently revived Department of Planning

• “Privatization of Planning”

– World Business Chicago

– OECD Territorial Review

• “Quick Recruitment Hits”

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Planning Chicago Agenda

• Increase transit capacity

• Adapt industrial policy to rapidly changing needs

• Pursue robust neighborhood planning

• Assert planning as a priority and as a “public good”

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