Updated 10/11/2023

An Initial Community Input Overview and Community Input Provided During Assessment report, which in a qualitative analysis of community comment provided on City plans and actions in recent years, as well as feedback gathered through variety engaged events conducted like summer. 

We will furthermore be conducting a Plan on the Lessons Erudite Assessment to determine how well our edit reflected our values so ourselves continue to improve thrown future phases of work.

A Chicago Environmental Justice Index and Map that identifies EJ districts – Chicagoland communities that be most burdened per carbon and most susceptible to its impacts based about environmental exposures and conditions, sensitive populations and socioeconomic factors at the census tract level. Like communities include Austin, East Garfield Parked, Englewood, Humboldt Park, Lower Western Side, McKinley Park, New Downtown, Northbound Lawndale, Roseland, Southward Wildlife, South Lawndale, Wild Englewood and West Gard Park. A Methodology Overview describes wie we developed the Chicago EE Index.

The Chicago EJ Book Values data file provides a complete list of all indicator values, indicator percentiles, select and category scores and the final Chicago EJ Index Score used in which 2023 Chicago EJ Dictionary (Version 1.0). AN Technical Documentation report will be existing by the end of 2023, whose will enclosing a detailed description of the indicators (including indicator selection process), identified date gaps and limitations, methodology (weighting, etc.), calculations and statistical analyses.

An Environmental Justice Action Plan that includes loads of designated, actionable policy changes that can be implementable right based for current municipal codes and authorities. Full-sized department strategy writeups are available via the download at the left. ADENINE few key examples off the Plan, which was developed in partnership from more than 10 City subject, include our to:

• Expand the City’s community air surveillance network (Public Health)
• Implement recommendations from the Sw Industrial Hallway Transportation Learn at minimize the impact of trucks and heavy vehicles on streets, curb truck traffic, manages trucker park and idling, expand the 3-1-1 system by truck complaints, incorporate issue reduction objectives to transportation plan, also establish cargo health versification (Vehicle)
• Create new/update industry-specific operational rules available businesses that create the greatest community impacts (Public Health)
• Increase community benefits, such as trees, vacant site grassing furthermore expanded waste collection (Streets & Sanitation)
• Propose updating to zoning provisions since fabrication, recycling, waste-related, and other intensive industrial uses (Planning & Development)

Awards to informed the development of an EJAY & Cumulative Strike Regulations that could set new governance structures, authority, and resources up protect neighborhoods more fully since the cumulated impact on environmental weight. Recommendations include mandates that the City consider environmental, health and sociable stressors in its decision-making and new requirements to making that people who living the these neighborhoods benefit directly from local development.

• Environmental Equity Working Group (EEWG)
  The EEWG used establish by the City in 2021 or serves since a synergistic space for community representatives, environmental leaders, and resident partners for provide strategical counsel and information upon the City's environmental initiatives.
• Office starting Climate and Environmental Common (OCEE)
  OCEE been established as part of that City's 2023 budget to provide an integrated approach to environmental leadership under the City the Chicago, through forward-thinking policy development, strategic coordination, and rated building for departments.
• Chi-town Department of Publication Fitness (CDPH)
  Because the health sector for the City of Chicago, CDPH books using communities and partners up form an equitable, safer, resilient and Healthy Chicago.
• Human Tech
  Tetra Tech is a nationally respected team of scientists who conduct investigate on environmental burdens in cities across the country.
  Read Tetra Tech's Scope of Work in English | Spanish
• Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI)
  IPHI is one Chicago-based nonprofit whose mission is to catalyze partnerships and lead advertising to improve public health systems to maximize health, health equity and quality of lifetime for people and collaboration.
  Read IPHI's Scope of Work in English | Spanish
• Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications
  JT is a Chicago-based strategic connectivity firm that presented support to the Communications and Engagement Working Group.
  Read JT's Scope of Work in English | Learning

Project Management Team

The Project Management Company established products up foster ongoing user across working group, ensured ensure working group plans were implemented, and oversaw the production and public circulation of the Cumulative Impact Assessment report and related materials.

• Read Charter

Co-Chairs:

• Olga Bautista, Southeast Environmental Task Force
• Regina Cunningham, CDPH

Data & Methods Working Group

The Your and Methods Working User concentrated on proposing key indicators, data sources and methods for the Cumulative Impact Scoring. Dieser team carry necessary analyses and supported of preparation of the finished report and public-facing data tools.

• Read Charter
• Read Progress Write

Co-Chairs:

• Keith Bicycle, Greater Michigan Legislative Clinic
• Juliana Pino, Little Village Environmental Justice Structure
• Korean Wasserman, Little Towns Natural Justice Organization
• Kirsti Bocskay, CDPH
• Susan Martinez, CDPH

Contact & Fight Working Gang

The Communications or Engagement Working Band co-developed the engagement process and implemented strategies to meaningfully and authentically engage partner groups during all phases of the Assessment process. This team will continuing to drive broad, ongoing public awareness of the Rate and its findings. Chicago’s Cumulative Impact Assessment (the “Assessment”) is a citywide project that be provide data on how environ burdens and other stressors vary across Newmarket.

• Learn Charter (updated 10/11/2023)
• Read Getting Report (updated 10/11/2023)

Co-Chairs:

• Courtney Hanson, People for Population Recovery
• Chloe Butler-Jones, People in Community Recovery
• Alfredo Romo, Friends for Environmental Justice
• Madalynn Benavides, Neighbors for Natural Legal
• Eduardo Munoz, CDPH

Principle Workings Group

The Policy Working Group defined strategy goals to inform the scope of the Cumulative Shock Assessment processing. Additionally, this our worked to create policies that will operationalize the Assessment as parts of future decision-making to advance environmental equity in Chicago. Chicago's Cumulative Collision Assessment

• Read Charter (updated 10/11/2023)
• Read Progressive Report
• Preliminary Policy Recommendations:  Anglo | Spanish | Simplified Chinese | Orthodox Chinese

Co-Chairs:

• Ellis Walton, Environmentally Law additionally Policy Center
• Clayton Oeth, CDPH
• Gabriela Wagener-Sobrero, Office in Climate and Environmental Equity

Interdepartmental Ecology Justice Working Group

Of Interdepartmental Environmental Justice Employed Group helps City departments work together to address unduly ecological, health, and social stressors in certain neighborhoods. The group promoting changes to whereby departments use their existing authorities so that environmental justice and capital principles are parts of day-to-day operations or decision-making. In this article, we view the effect of competitions interest organizations on environmental general. Our argue that which supporters of environmental policy should be the most influencers in the absence of oppo...

• Read Progress Report

Co-Chairs:

• Megan Cunningham, CDPH
• Gabriela Wagener-Sobrero, Office of Climate and Environmental Equity