The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus is a membership organization of the Chicago region’s 275 cities, towns and villages. Founded in 1997 by then Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and leading Mayors from nine suburban municipal groups, the Mayors Caucus pushes past geographical boundaries and local interests to work on public policy issues. The Caucus provides a forum for metropolitan Chicago’s chief elected officials to collaborate on common problems and work toward a common goal of improving the quality of life for the millions of people who call the region home.
Periodic Reports and invoices are due:
1. December 30, 2025
2. March 27, 2026
3. June 26, 2026
4. September 25, 2026
5. December 30, 2026
Reference your Scope of Work and Recipient Assurances and Requirements to complete this report. Target metrics needed for reporting are contained both in your Scope of Work and in the Recipient Assurances and Requirements.
Tori Woolbright
Energy Efficiency Outreach Specialist
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus
433 W. Van Buren St., Suite 450
Chicago, IL 60607
Office: 312-201-4507
The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus EV Readiness Program will support municipalities as they take actions to advance transportation electrification. To join the fifth cohort, please complete this form by Friday, July 31, 2026. The fifth cohort will begin work in the late summer/early fall of 2026 and complete the program in the spring of 2027.
For more information on the Caucus' EV Readiness Program, go to: https://mayorscaucus.org/initiatives/environment/becoming-ev-ready/
Summary
Please fill out this Expression of Interest form if your municipality is interested in receiving assistance for local housing planning assistance via the Homes for a Changing Region program. Homes helps municipalities identify solutions to their most pressing housing challenges, create a balanced mix of housing types, and serve the needs of multiple generations of residents and workers. Homes is a partnership between the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus and Brick Partners.
About Homes for a Changing Region
Homes for a Changing Region helps municipalities understand the state of their market using data, regional expertise, and case studies from peer communities to identify solutions to their housing challenges.
Homes has been designed to provide a fast-moving technical assistance process to help municipalities identify housing issues and move quickly to readily implementable action steps. This occurs via a five to seven month process, which will include the following components:
- A housing needs assessment: This data analysis will identify key housing trends in the community. The Homes team will use it to facilitate a kickoff meeting of key stakeholders, such as elected officials and staff, to identify 2 to 4 short term housing challenges to address.
- Focus group meeting: A focus group meeting will bring together community members, such as local commissioners, developers, realtors, nonprofits, and landlords, to further discuss needs and challenges.
- A community survey: This survey will directly engage residents and determine key housing issues they face. This survey will help municipalities understand their market in real time.
- An expert panel: This event will bring in expert panelists to address the key issues identified in the assessment and survey and recommend targeted steps to address them.
- A housing action plan: This final action plan will summarize the findings of the data assessment, survey, and expert panel and identify 3 to 5 steps that the municipality can take, including through existing grant programs via IHDA and other entities. The action plan will be briefly summarized in a presentation to elected officials.
Guidelines and Deadline to Apply
Due to generous funding from IHDA, the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus has the ability to offer local housing planning to municipalities between July of 2026 and June of 2027. Assistance is free and slots are limited. Assistance is available to any municipality within northeastern Illinois. Communities that have previously participated in Homes are not eligible for assistance.
Interested municipalities may fill out this short form to express interest. You will need to create an account in Submittable to register. All assistance is provided through the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus and Brick Partners, and funded via the Illinois Housing Development Authority.
Please complete this form by Friday, June 19 to be considered for this free assistance. For more information, please contact Ben Schnelle at bschnelle@mayorscaucus.org.
The CS2 Residential Program allows municipalities to extend fair and transparent community solar subscription terms to their residents and small businesses. Local governments provide a trusted voice to citizens to let them know that a community solar offer is credible. The CS2 Residential Program can provide subscribers with a guaranteed minimum 10% savings of the community solar credits they receive on their bill. The program also provides equitable access to community solar by seeking projects that do not require credit checks.
To express interest in participating in the Community Solar Clearinghouse Solution (CS2) Program for Residents, then please fill out this form. Filling out this form is the first step in the process.
This site will also allow you to upload documents later in the process, like the approved municipal resolution and required marketing designation documentation.
For information on the next steps of the process, go to our CS2 webpage at https://mayorscaucus.org/initiatives/environment/community-solar-clearinghouse-solution-program-cs2program/.