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Decatur, Illinois Uses GIS to Prioritize $5 Million in Federal Funding to Revitalize Neighborhoods

8/11/2022

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By Cordaryl "Pat" Patrick, Director, Economic and Community Development, City of Decatur

The City of Decatur, Illinois, is like many cities in the Midwest in that it has seen significant population decline. Since 1980, the city has lost over one-fourth of its population. This led to blight issues and a lack of economic activity in its downtown area. To counter this problem, the city undertook a successful downtown revitalization plan in 2017, adding new commercial projects, a new community care center, and demolishing about 90 abandoned and derelict structures.
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While the downtown has seen a rebirth and the outlying areas of the city are prospering, a ring of neighborhoods in between has continued to suffer blight and lack of economic growth. These neighborhoods include about 9,000 residences, or roughly one-third of all properties in the city. Economic and Community Development director Cordaryl "Pat" Patrick and leaders at the city found an opportunity to remedy this with the release of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) funds, specifically, the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) through the US Department of the Treasury. About $5 million of the award was set aside specifically for residential rehabilitation grants, which can be used by individual homeowners or landlords. The looming question was, How should the funds be distributed?

That's where the city's geographic information system (GIS), led by Seth Stark, came into play. In May 2022, the city used ArcGIS Survey123 to publish an app to the public that allowed residents to quickly and easily apply for money to rehabilitate their homes for projects such as a new roof, air conditioning, accessibility improvements, and structural repairs. Within the first day of the release of this survey, the city had received 200 applications, and over 400 by the end of the first week.

To process the applications, Stark utilized a dashboard created in ArcGIS Dashboards. This showed the number, location, and type of applications in near real time. After the applications were reviewed in mid-July, the dashboard was updated to show the status of the rehab grant applications and made available to city leaders and the public to provide transparency about the grant process. As the projects are undertaken and completed, this information will also be updated in the dashboard. The GIS can also be used to break down activity by neighborhood boundary, census tract, and so forth.
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"GIS was the right choice for tracking these residential rehab lottery applications," said Stark. "The qualifications for grants are based on where you live within Decatur, so accepting the applications through Survey123, tracking their statuses, and analyzing where it is that the most help is needed was a natural fit for GIS."
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The goal is for the rehabilitation to include all the residents of these designated neighborhoods, which in turn will benefit all city residents, as they will see increases in property values; neighborhood attractiveness; and, likely, economic growth and development.
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ArcGIS Dashboard of 2019 Housing Condition Survey Dashboard (Torrence Park Neighborhood)
​"In 2019, we conducted a GIS-based housing condition survey, which helped us determine what areas of Decatur needed the most help with regards to revitalization. Now, we're building on that foundation to expand on the successes we've had with our downtown revitalization by spreading our resources into our urban core neighborhoods. GIS continues to be the tool that simplifies collecting and analyzing information so we can make data-based decisions in our efforts to move the needle towards success in Decatur."

[Credit: Originally Published by Esri]
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GIS Center Helps City of Silvis with Water Pipe Survey

8/1/2022

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MACOMB, IL – A project to meet a statewide mandate to replace lead water pipes in homes is resulting in hands-on GPS and GIS experience for Western Illinois University undergraduate and graduate students.

The GIS Center at WIU, headed by Director Chad Sperry, has partnered with the Rock Island County community of Silvis to evaluate water pipes that run from the city's streets into its more than 1,500 homes. The project is paying University students to go door-to-door, asking residents to examine the pipe coming into their home from the streets. Students then photograph the pipe, and the collected data is entered into a project database to keep track of the existence of lead pipes that need to be replaced with copper piping.
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Silvis officials approached the University after seeking out a way to complete the work.

"This project helps with the students' interpersonal skills and their GIS skills," said Sperry. "Silvis officials made a Facebook post to notify residents that the students would be knocking on doors, and they wore city shirts with 'Silvis' on them, in an effort to alleviate concerns residents had. They also put an ad in the local newspaper asking residents to allow the students to come in."

The work began over WIU's spring break week with GPS equipment purchased for the project. That week, graduate students went home-to-home checking and photographing the pipes, then adding to the database. Students returned to the community earlier this summer, and a plan is being put together for a third visit.

"Collaborating with the WIU students has been so beneficial for the city of Silvis," said Silvis City Administrator Nevada Lemke. "As a small community, with limited staff resources, gathering material inventory for our entire community's water distribution system is quite challenging. The WIU students working on this project came to Silvis and went straight to work, gathering data and entering it directly into the GIS platform. Not only is this extremely helpful with gathering the required material data, but they are going above and beyond by entering locator data for other equipment in our distribution system which is building a more comprehensive GIS map for our community and improving the accuracy of it."
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In addition to the legwork, the center built a manual so once the work is complete, Silvis' public works staff can access the online database to make changes and information is gathered about homes, or residents self-report the status of their water pipes.

WIU GIS graduate student Marcus Baptiste, of Grenada said he has made two trips to Silvis to work on the project. He said he learned a variety of skills while gathering information.

"I learned communication skills as we dealt with a variety of people on a day-to-day basis," he said. "We had to analyze the data and go back and add it to the database."

Sophomore GIS major Brad Mercer, of Granite City, IL, accompanied the group on the first data-gathering trip. He said he learned leadership skills, including doing training with Silvis' officials.

Sperry said a presentation on the project was delivered at the recent Illinois Public Works Association's conference, which has led to inquiries from other Illinois' cities. Travel time and lodging expenses are cost prohibitive to doing similar projects too far from Macomb.

The state of Illinois has given communities two years to complete an inventory of homes. There could be grant money coming to help replace the lead-based lines.

For more information on the GIS Center, visit wiu.edu/GIS.

[Credit: Western Illinois University]
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Eight research organizations form new geospatial institute in st. louis

4/22/2022

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By Jacob Barker, Reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
PictureAndrew C. Taylor, executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings Inc. and Founding Chair of Greater St. Louis Inc., speaks at the announcement of the launch of the Taylor Geospatial Institute. Photo by Hillary Levin.

ST. LOUIS — Bolstering the city’s bid to become a hub for geospatial technology, economic development and academic leaders announced Thursday the creation of a new research center that will help build an industry officials see as key to St. Louis’s economic future.

Funded with a “legacy investment” from Andy Taylor, executive chairman of rental car giant Enterprise Holdings, as well as contributions from eight area research institutions, the Taylor Geospatial Institute will fund research and develop programs to draw top scientists to the St. Louis. It will also hire research support staff, house cutting-edge equipment and computing power, and build an extensive data library in a bid to draw the top minds in the field here.

“Geospatial is the critical technology in nearly everything we do, and it is imperative that St. Louis have the world’s leading geospatial research institution to fulfill our promise as the global center for geospatial technology in the next decade,” Taylor, who is also the founding chair of business and civic booster Greater St. Louis Inc., said in a statement. “It is my hope that this institute will cement St. Louis as the world’s true center for geospatial excellence.”

An exact figure for the donation wasn’t released, but the Taylor family has put well over $1 billion into the area’s cultural institutions and civic initiatives over the years, from the St. Louis Symphony and Missouri Botanical Garden to the Arch Grounds revamp to the new Major League Soccer franchise and downtown stadium.

“When the Taylor family gets involved,” said Jason Hall, CEO of Greater St. Louis, “they do big things.”

The Taylor Geospatial Institute is a “big, big deal for St. Louis,” Hall said. Setting up an entity that can finance foundational research in the geospatial sector will help draw talent and investment from firms that want to be around innovation, Hall said. He called geospatial the “most critical industry for the future success of this metro right now.”

Beyond government agencies like the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, location science has applications for agriculture, public health and a host of consumer and business products, as more devices communicate and connect with each other.

“I’m hoping that this becomes another industry that brings a lot of people from out of town, creates a lot of business, students that are here stay here after they graduate,” Taylor told media after the announcement was made on St. Louis University’s campus Thursday. “It’s also very good for society, if you look at the things geospatial can do, whether it’s food security or national security — the light went on, and it just made a lot of sense to me.”

Launching a geospatial research collaborative was one of the key priorities in the STL GeoFutures report, released in 2020 as regional leaders laid the groundwork to leverage the western headquarters of the NGA to further build an industry sector where St. Louis has a competitive edge. The thousands of jobs at the NGA, and the intelligence agency’s desire to shed its insular reputation and work more closely with industry and universities, have already drawn the interest of locational science firms that have moved to set up offices in St. Louis.

Former NGA Director Robert Cardillo, at the announcement Thursday, said that when he made the decision to build the agency’s new headquarters in north St. Louis, he hoped it would help spur collaborative efforts to propel geospatial research. He and those still with the agency are excited about the opportunities the Taylor Institute might provide. Future geospatial innovation is likely to come from beyond the agency, Cardillo said, and the Taylor Institute can help the NGA solve problems and train its future workforce.

“It’s a win for the NGA and their national security mission, it’s a win for talent and core science, but the big win is for the region,” Cardillo told the Post-Dispatch.

The launch of the Taylor Institute follows other geospatial efforts from organizations such as T-Rex, the downtown business incubator that has a whole floor devoted to geospatial firms and has attracted the NGA’s Moonshot Labs and a University of Missouri St. Louis outpost devoted to the sector. Arch Grants, which offers grants and resources to startups, has set aside funding specifically for geospatial firms.

Harris-Stowe State University, St. Louis University and others have joined business and government leaders to orient their activities in ways to help grow the geospatial sector in St. Louis. Harris-Stowe signed a cooperation agreement with NGA to collaborate with the agency on course offerings. SLU has launched a geospatial institute to work with NGA on research and develop curriculum for careers in the field.

Area universities will be deepening their involvement in the geospatial sector, with seven partnering to form the new Taylor Institute: SLU, Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University.

SLU will house the Taylor Geospatial Institute, though the institute will operate as its own nonprofit with its own director, for which it will conduct a national search.

Though it will be based at SLU, the new institute is “much bigger than any one university,” said SLU President Fred Pestello. He likened it to the area’s success in ag tech, which, in addition to anchor employers and universities, also built off a private research institute.

“Much like plant science, you need the research that you then apply to commercial applications,” Pestello said. “Without this piece of it, I don’t think St. Louis would be able to become the leader it aspires to be in geoscience and not really be able to take advantage of the enormous, tremendous asset we have with the NGA.”

The other institution partnering on the Taylor Institute is the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a private research institute that Hall and Pestello said is similar to the vision for the new Taylor Geospatial Institute. It was founded by another St. Louis family, the Danforths, and it helps draw top researchers and funds foundational research for the industry.

Geospatial tech has plenty of applications in plant and agricultural technology that the center can help develop. But more broadly, the hope is that the Taylor Geospatial Institute can replicate some of the success St. Louis has had in plant science for the geospatial sector. An investigator at the Danforth Center, for instance, co-founded the now publicly traded Benson Hill.
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“Communities that really get ahead in an industry,” Hall said, are “where the ‘new’ is getting created.”

[Credit: St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
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Illinois geographical society annual meeting - register today!

3/8/2022

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From our friends at the Illinois Geographical Society (IGS):

​The Illinois Geographical Society cordially invites you to explore the Western Suburbs for its Annual Meeting, April 28-30, 2022. The meeting will be hosted at the Sheraton in Lisle, IL. Join us as we look back in time at the Gentleman Farms of Western Suburbs and welcome you back to our in-person meeting. 

More information:
- Meeting invitation
- Book hotel room
- Call for posters & papers

Register Today!
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Rep. Casten, FAA officials visit Harper to engage with drone program

3/1/2022

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Harper College faculty and students welcomed U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (in blue suit jacket) and FAA Administrator Rebecca MacPherson (in yellow jacket) to campus to learn about the college's drone program and try a drone flight simulator. (Credit: Harper College)
Faculty and students from the Harper College Drone Technology and Applications program recently opened up their classrooms to U.S. Rep. Sean Casten and Federal Aviation Administration officials.

Mukila Maitha, coordinator of Harper’s drone program, led a presentation during the October 29 visit about the program’s history before former and current students shared their experiences with a group that included Casten, who serves Illinois’ sixth congressional district, Dr. Avis Proctor, Harper College president, and Rebecca MacPherson, the FAA’s regional administrator for the Great Lakes region. The students explained interdisciplinary uses for unmanned aircraft and discussed workforce opportunities before instructing visitors how to pilot a drone in a flight simulator.

“This certificate program gives students the skills that they need to enter this fast-growing drone industry,” said Maitha, also the geography department chair and an associate professor at Harper. “We have experienced faculty and we have first-class facilities. This puts us in unique position to serve not only our district, but the entire Chicago area.”

Indeed, Harper’s program is one of only two programs in Illinois selected by the FAA for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Initiative. The 16-credit certificate program, which began in January 2021, offers comprehensive training in both multi-rotor and fixed wing drones, while preparing students for the FAA’s Part 107 drone pilot exam.
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“What I love about Harper and our community college system broadly is that we have this rapidly dynamic economy and you guys move so quick to address it,” Casten said. “You all have worked with the FAA… you’ve created this program and we’re so thankful to have you in our district. We’re so thankful we have the professors bringing this up and making this work and, of course, the students to take advantage of all this.”

The students were the focus of the event, highlighting how each had used drone technology at Harper (from surveying geography on campus to studying environmental factors in India) and outlining how it will assist them in their future careers (including emergency management and parks and forestry). Each expressed their fascination with drones, but also how drone pilots can be a necessary resource for many industries – sometimes even saving lives in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

“If you want to be an environmental specialist and you’re licensed to pilot drones, that gives you a tremendous tool to go into places safely,” the FAA’s MacPherson said. “There are implications for geology. There are implications for law enforcement. Anytime you get out of an office structure, there is probably an application where being able to safely and effectively operate a drone would assist you in your professional choices and your ability to do your job.”
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​After the FAA administrator noted aviation’s struggle to build a diverse pipeline of new pilots, it was notable that each Harper student who presented at the event is a woman – and many are women of color.
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“With regard to community colleges, [the FAA’s drone initiative] really allows us to expand our footprint in drawing people to careers in aviation,” MacPherson said. “We get people interested in aviation in different ways, most of which is about exposure. Aviation hasn’t always been good about diversity. There are shortages in women and minorities, and we think bridging the gap through community colleges is a great way to address it.”

[Originally published by the Harper College News Bureau on 11/3/21]
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Why did an Augustana GIS class learn to fly?

2/25/2022

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Claire Gregory ’22 and Bethany Schorr ’22 fly the geography department’s DJI Mavic Mini drone along the Mississippi River. (Credit: Augustana)
PictureJohn Vohasek ’23 and Amanda Walljasper ’23 (Credit: Augustana)
Her official licensed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) commercial drone pilot’s card had just arrived, and Amanda Walljasper ’23 was excited. “I was really nervous,” she said about the certification test, “and most of the questions on that test are for actual pilots.”
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She had spent hours piloting drones and learning FAA test requirements in her Drone Mapping and GIS (geographic information system) class with Dr. Reuben Heine last fall. Walljasper and 10 other students, half of the class, went further by earning their certification through a testing site at a Quad-Cities airport.

That was the best part for her: “Seeing it all compiled together.”

“None of us had ever used photogrammetry, none of us had really ever flown drones before, so we just got right into learning it,” Walljasper said.

Dr. Heine, the Edward Hamming Chair of the geography department, knows students get excited just seeing the class title. Alongside the general thrill, for geography students there’s eagerness to use this new field tool.

“Then there is that moment when they really come to understand what they’re getting with drones," he said.

The difference between the best satellite imagery and drone imagery, he said, is “the difference between looking at a Minecraft world that’s all pixelated and blocky, and the real world…. It’s hundreds of times better resolution than you can get with existing mapping products.”

He pointed out that with drones you can see detail on individual tree leaves, or individual bolts on campus buildings.

Along with higher resolution, drones provide a truly new perspective. Geographers have always conducted their analyses on the ground level, based on what they see with their own eyes — and also using maps, from the global scale on down. “But even the best maps only take you down so far,” Dr. Heine said.

Between ground-based and aerial perspective is another one, “just above head level, that informs our understanding of the world around us,” he said. “What’s so exciting with drones is that it puts you in control of that in-between.”

As soon as he shares that with students, he said, “they see it.”

So does Augustana’s facilities department.

What more access to ‘the real world’ can do

The class was divided into groups, each in charge of mapping a section of campus. Once they learned how to safely maneuver the drone, the groups planned their flights and captured more than 1,400 images.
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Then, working with Director of Facilities Bob Lanzerotti, the students created an aerial base map of campus. They also designed new geodatabases of 3D renderings of building roofs and surfaces such as athletic fields and parking lots.
PictureClaire Gregory ’22 and Dr. Reuben Heine review the flight controller. (Credit: Augustana)
To do this, they used a process called photogrammetry to resolve photos in 3D. Because only the center of a photo is distortion-free, Dr. Heine explained, photogrammetry overlays images so that measurements can be made using only those distortion-free sections (see Old Main image).

Students can “take lots and lots of photos and deliberately assemble them into a final digital product that’s then usable in GIS,” said Dr. Heine. He describes photogrammetry as “the in-between of drone flying and GIS.”

This spring, four students are continuing their class final database project through paid internships with Augustana's facilities department. Two are working with the grounds crew to focus on paved, grassed and forested areas, prioritizing pollinator gardens and sites that need attention, and later, permeable paved surfaces.
PictureUsing photogrammetry to map Old Main. (Credit: Augustana)
Amanda Walljasper is one of the two interns working on a rooftop geodatabase. Building on the drone data from the class mapping project, the interns are adding measurements, roof types, angle and pitch, make and model, etc., so that facilities will have a clickable database about the state of a rooftop.

​And in the future, the facilities department will hire a student worker with GIS background to keep the project going.
Picture“The drone industry is on the cusp of exploding, so I am excited to be on the leading edge of the industry.” – Ben Ford ’22 (Credit: Augustana)
Precision agriculture and other futures for the field

Walljasper’s minor in geographic information science and technology (GIST) supports her majors in public health and environmental studies. She said what drew her to GIS is “all the possibilities, and that it’s constantly growing.”

Inspired by both the human/social and physical/environmental sides of public health, she knows GIS can influence her future career, though she doesn’t yet know how. “I want to make positive changes for both the environment and for people, and keeping the environment healthy keeps people healthy.

“I really like research and interacting with people — and going out into the field, too," she said. "I like it all, which makes it hard to narrow it down.”

Walljasper has plenty of time to find her path — and a great resource in Augustana’s CORE (Careers, Opportunities, Research, Exploration). That’s where she found her major interests, with the help of her vocational exploration advisor, when she realized she no longer wanted to be the band director she’d imagined in high school.

Senior Ben Ford, with his GIST minor and majors in geography and business administration, knows exactly how he’ll use his GIS and drone skills after graduation: as a UAS Flight Operations intern for a precision agriculture company called Sentera.

Ford will travel “to farm fields across eastern Iowa and western Illinois to collect various types of data with Sentera’s FieldAgent technology,” he said. He’ll be “giving farmers accurate insights regarding crop stand counts, tassel counts, crop health, yield estimates and precision weed mapping, to name a few.

“So, basically, I will be the one flying the drone and collecting the data, then sending this data off to analysts at Sentera to create useful deliverable data for farmers who want to know more about their cropland.”

When he was introduced to drone technology through his GIST minor, he saw the powerful data it could offer.
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“And that led me to seek a job position that uses drones to help others,” Ford said. “The drone industry is on the cusp of exploding, so I am excited to be on the leading edge of the industry.”

[Credit: Augustana College]
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Statewide Parcel Data Transformation: The North Dakota Parcel Story

2/25/2022

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Next Wednesday, March 2nd @ 2:00 pm EST, Bob Nutsch (Geospatial Program Coordinator for North Dakota) and 2020 ILGISA Keynote Speaker, Bill Johnson (AppGeo's Carpe Geo Evangelist), will share the story behind the State's Parcel Program. From how it got started, to what helped it succeed — and most importantly, what has been learned along the way.
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“I’m excited to share what the State and it’s partners, all 53 counties and their vendors, have experienced: the challenges we’ve encountered, how they were addressed, the things we are working on now, and our vision moving forward.”

AppGeo’s Carpe Geo Evangelist and former NY State GIO, Bill Johnson, will facilitate the conversation with Bob, exploring the county-state cooperative model that North Dakota has implemented.
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MAGIC 2022 EARLY BIRD Registration DEADLINE APPROACHING

2/23/2022

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From our friends at the Mid-America GIS Consortium (MAGIC):

The Earlybird registration deadline for MAGIC 2022 is quickly approaching! Make sure to register by March 4 to take advantage of discounted rates. The earlybird full conference rate is only $445, and additional 4-hour pre-conference workshops are only $125 each! Register for MAGIC 2022 here!

MAGIC Hotel Information
April 11-14, 2022
Hilton Branson Convention Center
200 E Main Street, Branson, MO
Room Code: MAGIC

For full MAGIC 2022 details, click here.
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2022 Esri Story Map Competition for Middle School and High School is Now Open!

2/10/2022

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Calling Middle School and High School Educators, Homeschoolers and Scouting Leaders...

Get your students involved in a statewide contest for using maps to study social science or science topics.
 
All Illinois students - east, west, north, south, rural, urban or suburban - are invited to tell their home town stories in the 6th Annual Illinois Map Competition for middle school and high school.
 
The contest is sponsored by Lincoln Land Community College, Illinois Geographic Alliance, The Geographic Society of Chicago and Esri K12 Education. Registration deadline is April 9, 2022.
 
More Information
  • Contest organizers: Dean Butzow and Rey de Castro
  • Email Dean with questions
  • Visit Think Geospatial to get started
 
Thank you for your continued support of K-12 geography/GIS education.
Download the Flyer
[Credit: Geographic Society of Chicago]
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ILLINOIS STATE POLICE ANNOUNCE THE CREATION OF THE STATEWIDE EXPRESSWAY SHOOTING DASHBOARD

1/27/2022

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Springfield, IL – The Illinois State Police (ISP) has unveiled an interactive Statewide Expressway Shooting (SES) dashboard which contains current and historical data regarding reported expressway shooting incidents on all expressways in Illinois. The ISP created this tool to provide not only data but also as context to expressway shootings reported in Illinois.

One of the main goals of the SES dashboard is to be timely and transparent by displaying the latest reported expressway shooting information. The (SES) dashboard will display specific data relating to each reported expressway shooting located throughout the state.

The SES dashboard displays the number of reported expressway shootings from 2019 through 2022 (YTD). The Current YTD number of reported expressway shootings are also compared to the previous YTD number of reported expressway shootings. The SES dashboard will also include information concerning the location, date and time, specific Illinois Highway System, and whether there was a reported injury or death.

There are three drop-down menus located on the top right corner of the interactive SES dashboard indicating the Year, specific Roadway of occurrence, and Day of the Week; once selected, will display the results for your specific inquiry on the main map. Next, there are three tabs located on bottom left hand corner of the SES dashboard, which depending on which one is selected, will display a pie chart with the Day of Week, Death, or Injuries percentage of the total number of reported expressway shootings for the time frame selected. Lastly, the two tabs located near the bottom center area of the SES dashboard, will display a bar graph indicating either the reported expressway Shootings by Roadway or the reported expressway Shootings by Month/Year.
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Access to the dashboard can be located by selecting the below “Quick Link” labeled “Violence Reduction” from the Illinois State Police Home Page (https://isp.illinois.gov/).
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"We want to provide this information to the general public, community stakeholders, our traffic safety partners, other first responders, and our law enforcement partners to assure them that we are committed to our mission of ensuring public safety on our expressway systems,” said ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly. “Knowing when and where these violent crimes are being committed, provides us with another tool to combating these violent and senseless crimes.” 

[Credit: Illinois State Police]​
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