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This interactive website is a collaborative effort between the Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model (LEAM) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Illinois-Indiana Sea-Grant Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Lake Michigan Watershed Ecosystem Partnership (LMWEP) organized and administered by the Alliance for the Great Lakes. The purpose of this project is to develop and apply dynamic spatial simulation technologies and hydrological modeling to create a coastal and watershed planning support system for Northeastern Illinois. LMWEP will use this web-based model to: 1) assess the future growth of the Chicago metro area and how this projected growth will affect the region's water resources, 2) consider the future policies and actions that will be needed to manage and protect the region's coastal and water resources, and 3) deliver this knowledge so that it is understandable, usable, and widely available to local officials, nonprofit organizations and other stakeholders concerned with environmental protection and land use planning in the Chicago region.  Funding for this project is provided by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET), a partnership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of New Hampshire .

Using This Site

Click the icon icon   to open a pdf tutorial for using this site.

The information in this site is organized by tabs found at the top of the page.

  •   To open a tab, click it. The page is displayed and a navigation menu appears on the left hand side of the screen.
  •   To view the contents of a folder, click on the label in the navigation menu. The item is displayed along with folder contents.
  •   To view layers in a map, check the box next to that layer's name.
  •   The order in which the layers are checked is the order in which the layers are displayed; the last layer checked will be on top.

 

For a more detailed explanation of viewing SimMaps, please visit the FAQ tab.

 

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