Special Projects

Addressing critical, urgent needs

Given our flexible, collaborative model, Civic Consulting Alliance is uniquely positioned to capture timely opportunities and address urgent challenges that advance our mission—to make the Chicago region a great place for everyone to live in and work.

Recent examples of our special projects work include:

Creating Cook Country's first Long Range Transportation Plan in more than 75 years
Supporting Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services to develop an operating model, priorities, and goals
Improving operational efficiency of the Illinois Department of Transportation's contracting processes
Developing and supporting the Civic Leadership Academy, which graduated its second cohort of 30 fellows in July 2016

Project Highlights

June 21, 2023

hello June 21, 2023

How can the Chicago region strengthen operations to sustainably support influxes of asylum seekers?

Civic Consulting Alliance recently completed several collaborative projects with local and state governments to meet the urgent needs of asylum seekers, and prepare long-term, sustainable strategies for future influxes of new arrivals to Chicago. Clients featured below include Chicago Public ...

May 16, 2023

hello May 16, 2023

Four years, $34 million invested in Chicago: recapping our partnership with the Lightfoot administration

Civic Consulting Alliance highlights a few projects completed for the Lightfoot administration.

May 30, 2021

hello May 30, 2021

Supporting Community-Driven Vaccination Efforts

As local leaders and public health officials have called out since the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black and Latinx Chicagoans, due in part to longstanding racial inequities in healthcare quality and access. Last spring, the City ...