August 16, 2012 
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Small MPOs 
--Danville Area Transportation Study 
Area Transportation Study 
--Kankakee Area Transportation Study 
--Stateline Area Transportation Study 
 
Mid Size MPOs 
Urbanized Area Transportation Study 
Urbanized Area Transportation Study 
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--Springfield Area Transportation Study 
 
Large MPOs 
--Bi-State Regional Planning Commission 
--Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning 
Council of Governments 
Urbanized Area Transportation Study 
--Rockford Metropolitan Agency for Planning 
ILLINOIS NEWS 
    

Civic group calls for end to RTA (Chicago Tribune)

DOT leaders get grand tour of Gateway area (Clinton Herald)

Durbin announces $1.25 million investment to grow new air service at central Illinois airports (East Peoria Times Courier) 

Employment Data Available by Legislative District - New Service Compares Districts, Improves Planning (State of Illinois)

Jane Addams Memorial Tollway Travel Survey (Regional Transit Authority)

Leaders form Amtrak Corridor Coalition(Galesburg Register Mail)

Leucadia says it won't try to override Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of coal-to-gas plant (Chicago Tribune)

National Freight Policy in MAP-21 (Chicago Metropolitan Agency For Planning)

Rahm Emanuel on Upgrading Chicago's Infrastructure (BusinessWeek)

Tollway board agrees to help fund study of Highway 53 corridor (Chicago Tribune)

Water report: Sip, don't gulp (Evanston Now)

Will County pushes Peotone action while Jackson's absent (WBEZ) 
NATIONAL NEWS 

A New Tool To Help Communities Create Walkable Places (America walks)

Annual law enforcement campaign reminds everyone to "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" (Secretary Ray LaHood)

Google's Growing Web of Street Traffic Surveillance (The Atlantic Cities)

How Can Cities Recapture Investment In Public Infrastructure? (Next American City)

Making or Breaking a Town's Appeal to Bicyclists & Pedestrians (Planning Commissioner's Journal)

MARTA to keep rail expansion vision alive (Progressive Railroading)

New Law Puts "Bridge to Nowhere" Back on Track (The Fiscal Times)

New report and companion workbook highlight successful Complete Streets policies from across the United States (Complete Streets)

Paving the Future of Transportation Policy: What Congress Smoothed Over, and Where Potholes Remain (National Council of La Raza)

Video rising: News consumers, mobile devices make video critical storytelling tool (Talking Transportation)

Where the bike commuters are, mapped & analyzed (Natural Resources Defense Council Blog)

Why Some Georgians Approved a Transportation Sales Tax (Governing Magazine)  
ILMPO
Marta Elena Perales
MPO Statewide Coordinator 
Illinois MPO Advisory Council
233 S Wacker Suite 800
Chicago IL  60606
marta@ilmpo.org
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