● portfotolio ● albums of Metropolitan Planning Council

Preserving Affordability Together Celebration

Austin Coming Together - Burnham Awards

Newcomers Think & Drink 12/12/19

Toward Universal Mobility 2019

Odyssey Boat Cruise 2019

Urban Think & Drink Equitable Development PechaKucha

10/16/19 Board Meeting

Urban Think & Drink An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Transform Illinois 2019

Lathrop Neighbor Night and Grand Opening Celebration

Preserving Affordability Together - East Garfield Park 2nd Community Meeting

2019 Annual Luncheon

A Toast to Marisa!

CSC Service Day 2019

Trivia Night (Feb. 7, 2019)

MPC Odyssey Chicago River Cruise (2018)

2018 Annual Luncheon—The Creativity Factor: How Art and Culture Impact Communities

MPC Urban Think and Drink: Creativity, Arts and Economic Vitality

MPC The Chicago Region's Transit Future

CSC Pullman Tour

MPC Leadership Circle—Tour of McDonald's HQ

#BustedCommute

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Richard Rothstein on The Color of Law

MPC Leadership Circle—Tour of Chicago's Historic Post Office

Driverless Cars: The Public Sector's Role

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Dan Egan on The Life and Death of the Great Lakes

Illinois International Port District Boat Tour

Contract Buying Forum

2017 Annual Luncheon—Creating A Winning City: The Team. The Town. The Region.

Chicago's River Edge Ideas Lab

Celebrating Chicago's River Edge Ideas Lab

MPC 2017 Chicago River Tour

MPC Leadership Circle—Tour of 150 N. Riverside

MPC Pullman Walking Tour

MPC Roundtable—Richard Florida on The New Urban Crisis

MPC Urban Think & Drink—The Death Gap with David A. Ansell, MD

MPC Roundtable—Pullman Pulling Ahead

MPC Roundtable—Can Chicagoland Thrive in the Trump Era?

2016 Calumet River cruise

Chicago River South Branch

Chicago River North Branch

2016 Transform Illinois Awards Luncheon

Calumet River Charette Sites

Our Great Rivers launch

Our Great Rivers

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Streetfight with Janette Sadik-Khan

Transform Illinois in Springfield

MPC Urban Think & Drink—What happened to the moderates? with Sec. Ray LaHood

Des Plaines River Charette

MPC Roundtable—Station Transformation: A Union Station for the 21st Century

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Sam Schwartz on the Rise of Cities and Fall of Cars

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Gabe Klein on the “Start-Up City”

The Efficiency Advantage: Stories of Collaboration & Innovation in Local Government

MPC Roundtable—When Public Spaces Fail: Universal Design as Social Justice

Prairie Materials Tour

MPC Roundtable—Let the Dollars Flow: Viable Ways to Finance Water Infrastructure

WEFTEC Stormwater sites tour

MPC Roundtable—Can Chicagoland Grow by Filling In?

Building Tomorrow: Celebrating The 606 and Great Planning in Chicagoland

Northerly Island Ribbon Cutting

Touring the Calumet with the Coast Guard

Bi-state habitat sites tour

More Choices for More Families Conference

June 30 Great Rivers Chicago Boat Tour

Great Rivers Chicago: Attempting to bike the North Branch

2015 Annual Luncheon: Investing in Chicago's Future

Broke, Broken and Out of Time (Infrastructure Week 2015)

Great Rivers Chicago Kickoff (Party on a Bridge)

18th Street Bridge Ribbon Cutting

MPC Think & Drink—Design for the Just City with Toni Griffin

MPC Roundtable—Building Resilience: How To Engage and Mobilize Vulnerable Communities

MPC Roundtable—Accelerate Illinois: Addressing Our Transportation Funding Shortfalls

Conversation and Reception with Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871

MPC Roundtable—Building Resilience: Mega-storms, Mega-regions, Mega-plans

MPC Roundtable—We're All In This Together: Improving Government Efficiency

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Communities and Technology with Keith Hampton

Grove Apartments, Oak Park (RHI Development)

Emerson Square (RHI Development)

MPC Roundtable—CREATE: Freight driving the economy

MPC Urban Think & Drink—Urban Acupuncture with Jaime Lerner

MPC Roundtable—Planning for the Aging of Chicagoland's Communities

Rinse and Repeat: The Future of Water Reuse

MPC Roundtable—Reimagine: Transforming Vacant Institutional Buildings

Magic to Stir Men's Blood: A Celebration of Planning

Logan Square CDI 2 (Block Exercise)

2014 09 09 Logan Square CDI 1

2014 Annual Luncheon Highlights

Cook County Land Bank Workshop and Press Conference

Placemaking Training Place Audits

Going Global: The Future of Chicagoland's Infrastructure

Uptown CDI—Meeting 3

Uptown CDI—Meeting 2

Uptown CDI—Meeting 1

MPC Roundtable—Progress on the GO TO 2040 Comprehensive Plan

MPC Roundtable—Smart Systems, Resilient Regions

Think & Drink—Going Solo with Eric Klinenberg

ACTIVATE Sullivan Center Alley

MPC Roundtable—Water Proof: Collaborative Stormwater Solutions

MPC's 80th Anniversary

Breaking New Ground

MPC Roundtable—Cook County Land Bank

Urban Think and Drink—Candy Chang

MPC Roundtable—Making the Case for Commute Options

Ashland BRT Rally at Punch House

2013 Annual Luncheon: Accelerating Change

ULI Pullman tour

Leadership Circle with Attorney General Madigan

Blue Island, Blue Water 2013

Blue Island Waterfront Tour

MPC Roundtable—BRT: Moving People, Driving Development

MWRD Stickney Water Reclamation Plant

Activate Union Station

Opportunities for Investment in Chicago's Southland

MPC Roundtable—Play Time! Planning Active, Healthy Communities

Behind the Scenes at Chicago Union Station

Milwaukee Avenue Green Development Corridor

Blue Island slideshow

Blue Island Retreat

Old wooden Chicago water pipe

New ped crossing @ State/Jackson

Urban Think and Drink—Theaster Gates

Chicago Union Station

MPC Roundtable—Tough Stuff: Resilient Infrastructure in a Changing World

MWRD Weather Monitoring Center

MPC Roundtable—Immeasurable Loss: Modernizing Lake Michigan Water Use

2013 Leadership Appreciation Reception

Shops and Lofts at 47 Groundbreaking

MPC EAH Anchor Institutions Roundtable

MPC Roundtable—Bus Rapid Transit on a Roll in Chicago

Single-Family Rental Housing Forum

MPC Roundtable: Future of Interjurisdictional Collaboration

Leadership Circle event with Jeanne Gang

December WOWW wrap-up

MPC and Openlands Roundtable--Wetter Weather: Neighborhood solutions to stormwater management

Blue Island Teacher Workshop (credit IL-IN Sea Grant)

Interjurisdictional general

Transportation general

Graywater Re-Use Home

2012 Space in Between placemaking contest awards ceremony

Garden under the Pink Line

RHI Developments

State of the Smart: Intelligent transportation systems roundtable

Plugging into Placemaking: Technology's Role in Community Planning

Book and a beer with For the Love of Cities author Peter Kageyama

Paul Revere Green Schools day

PARKing Day 2012

Blue Island Tot Lot Native Garden Planting

Getting Our Money's Worth: Using Value Capture to Fund Transit

Rain Check: Regional Solutions to Stormwater Management

Millennium Reserve Press Conference

HB 4496 Signing at Ryerson Woods

2012 Annual Luncheon: The Cities That Work

Bronzeville Live Remote Broadcast

Commute Options at Labelmaster Benefits Fair

Color Jam Loop 2012

2012 BNSF Railcar Breakfast

Midwest High Speed Rail Association 2012 Meeting

Urban Systems Collaborative Chicago

2012 World Water Day at Purdue Univ. Calumet

Mexico City

GRIP Urban Exchange 3: Don Ness and Karen Freeman-Wilson

Ryerson Woods with Nan Buckardt

2012 Plan for Prosperity

Lake Zurich report

Improving Health Through Planning

Homes and IJ Clusters

Better Commutes, Less Congestion (Commute Options Roundtable)

GRIP Urban Exchange 2

All Systems Go: Engineering Sustainable Utility Solutions

Innovative Financing for Transportation

Reforming Tax Increment Financing

Emerging Contaminants, Emerging Solutions

Growing Blue: Water, Economic Growth, and Corporate Stewardship

Water Wise: What We Need to Know About our Water Resources

Implementing GO TO 2040: A Plan for Chicagoland's Future/ We Have A Plan: What Do We Need?

Implementing GO TO 2040: A Plan for Chicagoland's Future/ We Have A Plan: Who's With Us?

Beyond the Neighborhood Stabilization Program; How Foreclosure Recovery can Foster Sustainable Communities Roundtable

Right As Rain: Advancing Safe, Sustainable Water Reuse Roundtable

Letting It All Soak In: Nature's Role in Protecting Water Resources Roundtable

Xav Briggs Leadership Circle

BCBS Rountable

CMAP GoTo 2040 Launch

2010 What Makes Your Place Great? Your Secret Corner of Chicagoland Contest

All Aboard Breakfast

2010 Annual Luncheon

Talking the Walk: The Importance of Pedestrian Friendly Public Spaces

Great Communities Roundtable

Blue Island

Charter One Workforce Event 2010

Logan Square Corridor Development Initiative

MPC in Pictures

Nuestro Retrato: Our Portrait

"What Makes Your Place Great?" Roundtable

Berlin Peer Exchange 2009

"What Makes Your Place Great?" submissions, photos and videos

2009 Annual Meeting Lucheon

Pay the Freight: Rail Infrastructure Investments in Canada and U.S

"What Makes Your Place Great?" Video Submissions

"What Makes Your Place Great?" contest

Leadership Circle with Charles Evans 7/8/09

Regional Connection

Robbins Illinois

Around the World in 90 Minutes

Roundtable with Bob McNulty 6/03/09

Urban Candid Shots

Cross-Committee Forum Jan. 2009

Legislative Forum: Making Sense of Springfield March 20, 2009

Placemaking Polish Triangle

Leadership Circle with Michael Ward

The Metropolitan Planning Council has moved to a new home in Chicago’s historic Marquette Building.

Stockholm trip 2008

Leadership Circle with Jonathan Alter

2008 Annual Meeting Luncheon

photos from Milwaukee EAH Symposium 5-22-08

EAH Mayor's Breakfast May 15, 2008

Water Conference

Green Festival

MPC Softball

Chicagoland Downtowns

Charter One workforce event