2025 Events

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Event Recap: APA-IL 2025 State Conference

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In October 2025, over 800 representatives from municipal governments, metropolitan planning organizations, nonprofits, and planning and engineering firms from across the State of Illinois gathered in Chicago for the American Planning Association Illinois Chapter (APA-IL) 2025 State Conference. The 3-day conference offered a forum for urban planners from around the state to present on their plans and projects, connect with likeminded planners, and learn from each other. 

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“A Design Framework: Mobility Hubs for Women & Caregivers” Webinar

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Grounded in research and real conversations with women and caregivers, SUMC and Living Cities and Communities have created a new tool to recognize and address the unique travel patterns and needs of women and caregivers. The project culminated in a Design Framework slidedeck that hopes to help planners, designers, community leaders, and teachers ask the right questions to better

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3rd Annual Paratransit / Popular Transportation Day at Transforming Transportation 2025

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Join us in Washington D.C. on Thursday the 13th of March 2025 for the 3rd Paratransit/Popular Transport Day (P/PTD). This one day event happens immediately after Transforming Transportation 2025 (TT2025). The mini-conference focuses on recognizing and elevating paratransit services—also known as “popular transportation, informal transportation, intermediate public transportation, or artisanal transportation—the privately provided, publicly serving

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2025 New Shared Mobility Summit

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Taking place in Chicago, Illinois, the reimagined New Shared Mobility Summit brought together cross-sector teams of Change Leaders from metropolitan regions across the U.S. to accelerate the shift to people-centered, low-carbon mobility. This Summit replaced traditional panels and lectures with collaborative, peer-led dialogue and learning. Participants built deeper relationships, share knowledge, and co-create strategies to

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