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Metro Joe is the host of a new game that challenges your knowledge of the Chicago region. In the coming months, a Metro Joe curriculum for 8th grade social studies classes and resources such as community maps, air photos and other materials will be available from this website. Metro Joe was created by Chicago Metropolis 2020 and Jellyvision Labs, Inc., with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Grand Victoria foundations. The premise of the Metropolis Project is that the issues facing the region - Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Kane and Will Counties - are interdependent and must be addressed regionally. These issues relate to unlimited, low density sprawl; concentration of poor minorities; the spatial mismatch between jobs, affordable housing and transportation; and disparate degrees of access to quality education. But enough about us. What are you waiting for, |
