Back in 2008, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plan to make Chicago “the greenest city in America” by 2020 made national news. How’s that going? Click here to see how Chicago fared.
University of Chicago environmental studies lecturer Alison Anastasio was impressed by the plan, and the research and planning that went into it. She has long used it in her classes as a case study on evidence-based policymaking. However, over the years, Alison worried the aims of that 2008 plan had been lost, and no one was keeping track. So she wrote to Curious City asking:
Chicago posed the ambitious City of Chicago Climate Action Plan in 2008 based on expert research. How are we doing on the goals?
We learned that Alison was right to be worried: No one entity has kept track of progress towards those CCAP goals. So Curious City took it as a challenge to reach out to dozens of city departments, public utilities, and think tanks to track the progress ourselves. Here is how the city did.
