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Lindsay Banks

Lindsay Banks was born in Denver but spent most of her childhood in suburban Lake County. She went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to get a degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and spent two years as a Municipal Development volunteer for the Peace Corps in rural Guatemala. After getting a master’s degree in GIS, she worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation for two years, promoting the use of advanced technology and visualization at State DOTs across the country. She has been at CMAP since 2007, and helped write the Infill Snapshot Report that assesses the regional potential for infill development, and the strategy papers on Parking Management and Urban Design. She is an avid bike commuter, an amateur photographer, and lives in the Ukranian village neighborhood of Chicago.

Posts by Lindsay Banks:

Urban Ag Zoning Change Update

Urban Ag Zoning Change Debate

How Chicago Does and May Do Zoning for Urban Ag

Answering the Call – Helping Farmer Vicki Who Needed Help

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