General: 815-319-4180 | info@r1planning.org
Properties: 815-319-4456 | property@r1planning.org
Region 1 Planning Council (R1) is a special-purpose, regional government agency providing cross-jurisdictional, government-to-government collaborative planning across Northern Illinois.
The regional planning model provides an efficient means to promoting a well-informed, comprehensive dialogue that holistically addresses regional issues by fulfilling the needs of government entities for long-range planning, securing funding, and analyzing and providing data in support of regional projects and initiatives.
SERVICES
R1 provides a wide variety of services, guided by and aligned to the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and responsive to client and community needs, including community health, economic development assistance, geographic information system, grant services, regional transportation planning, and research and analytics.
DESIGNATIONS
Institution
Consistent with 50 ILCS 15/Regional Planning Commission Act, Region 1 Planning Council was created by the cooperation of authorized authorities through intergovernmental agreement.
governing Board and Committees
We are rich with Board and Committee contribution. For a listing, please visit: http://r1planning.org/members
A N N U A L R E P O R T
See comprehensive reporting of our agency’s activities throughout the preceding year.
2021 Annual Report: Video | Document
2020 Annual Report: Video
why is regional planning uniquely valuable?
Planning represents the unification of multiple partner organizations working together with their respective communities towards a common goal: often this comes in the form of comprehensive planning documents, collaborative policies and procedures, and regional goals. Challenges that affect the region—whether it is social inequity, environmental degradation, structurally deficient infrastructure, or natural disasters—require the expertise from these partner organizations to be integrated with public comment into unified outputs that represents the interests of all. Often this results in policies that represent a broader group of individuals and the municipalities they make up.
For more information, please contact info@r1planning.org or 815-319-4180.