The Regional Planning Board was created through legislation that unanimously passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly and was signed into law by Gov. Rod Blagojevich on August 8, 2005. The RPB will combine the previously separate transportation and land-use planning agencies for northeastern Illinois into a single entity designed to protect natural resources and minimize traffic congestion as the seven-county region plans for the 21st Century and beyond. The new agency will combine the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) and the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC). CATS has been the federally designated metropolitan planning organization since 1955, and NIPC has been the region'’s comprehensive planning agency since 1957.
The Lake County Representative is Elliot Hartstein Mayor of Buffalo Grove. He is quite energetic and will be an excellent representative for our county.
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