
This GO TO 2040 Online Press Kit is geared toward helping online media including bloggers, writers, and social media users, write about GO TO 2040 and the "Invent the Future" phase of the plan. Please click "more" and read on for ways that you can learn more about our exciting new phase.
A Little About Us
Formed in 2005, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) integrates planning for land use and transportation in the seven counties of northeastern Illinois. Metropolitan Chicago will have an additional 2.8 million residents and 1.8 million jobs by 2040, and CMAP is leading the GO TO 2040 planning campaign to develop and implement strategies for addressing this growth's serious implications on quality of life — including transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and natural resources.
About "Invent the Future"
To coincide with the Burnham Centennial, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's GO TO 2040 campaign is making it easy for you to have your say about regional investments and policies. In this new "Invent the Future" public-input phase, you can:
- Use our MetroQuest GO TO 2040 web tools to create your own growth scenarios and compare them to CMAP's.
Attend one of 50
GO TO 2040 "Invent the Future"
workshops that CMAP will hold with partners across the seven counties.
Visit one of the interactive
GO TO 2040 kiosks at dozens of locations, including Millennium Park, Metra stations, libraries, festivals, and other sites around the region.
The population of metropolitan Chicago is expected to reach 11 million by 2040. To accommodate these 2.8 million new residents, our seven-county region needs to make some critical decisions over the next several years. We can’t solve everything at once, so it’s all about trade-offs.
Should rapid growth outward continue? Or should we consolidate housing and jobs where infrastructure already exists? Should we emphasize roads or transit — or invest in both? How can we reduce energy use while also strengthening our region’s economy?
Click here to Have Your Say as part of the important new "Invent the Future" phase of the GO TO 2040 comprehensive planning process.
Create and share a scenario
At http://www.goto2040.org, you can click on Invent the Future and create your own scenario of how you think the region should look in the year 2040. When you’re done, you can email it to friends, or grab a permalink and share it on your blog, or other social networking site.
Add our Invent the Future workshops to your web calendars
We will be holding over 50 free workshops during the summer. Please check our Invent the Future Workshops page for the most up-to-date information. For your convenience, the following text can be added to calendars (or, feel free to compose your own):
How should the region plan for the year 2040? This summer, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) will hold dozens of free public workshops called GO TO 2040 "Invent the Future". Information you contribute at these meetings will help CMAP develop a preferred scenario that will best reflect the region's desired future. Today’s workshop takes place at _______. Visit goto2040.org for more information and to register.
Add an Invent the Future web banner or image to your site
Available for download online, we have multiple sizes of banners and images for use on your website. Please link any banners or images you place on your site to http://www.goto2040.org

Embed our Invent the Future video teaser from You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56FW_iu0Qz4
Embed our Invent the Future workshop video from You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt1MyZJkza4
Friend us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GO-TO-2040/112378050852
Follow us on Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/goto2040
Add us as a contact on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/go_to_2040/
or submit your photos of northeastern Illinois to our Flickr pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/explore_northeast_illinois/
Subscribe to our GO TO 2040 blog RSS
http://www.goto2040.org/WorkArea/blogs/blogrss.aspx?blog=618
Keep an eye out for future email updates from our office
Please add @cmap.illinois.gov to your list of approved email domains in your email inbox. That way you’ll be sure to get all of the information from our office right when it’s red hot and ready to share.
If you would like more information, or need further details for additional press coverage, please contact Tom Garritano tgarritano@cmap.illinois.gov or 3112-386-8609 or Anne Holub, at aholub@cmap.illinois.gov or 312-386-8778.