2025 Future City Chicago

ILITE saw some amazing city designs and civil engineering on display at the 2025 Future City Competition on January 18th. Future City Competition introduces 6th, 7th and 8th graders to engineering with popular Sim City software. Students design cities with simulation software, build scale models, write essays and give oral presentations on their city’s design. The event is called the Future City event because each team spends months designing cities that could exist at least 100 years in the future.

Nandan Baheti attended the event to represent ILITE as a special awards sponsor. Nandan saw some amazing presenters and projects. Great work to all of the students who participated. If you know anyone who might be interested/have kids who might be interested in the Future City competition, please check out the Future City website https://futurecity.org/future-city-regions/illinois/

See some pictures Nandan captured of the event!

ILITE Annual Banquet 2025

The Illinois Section of ITE held our 2025 Annual Banquet on Thursday, January 30th. Thank you to everyone who came to Carnivale in Chicago, the night was full of great food, and even greater people! The new ILITE board was sworn in, and we are excited to welcome our new members on the team for a productive 2025!

President:

Anmol Shrivastava, PE, PTOE, RSP1

Vice President:

Tyler Grau, PE

Secretary:

Kristel Shu Bassett, PE, PTOE

Treasurer:

Micah Makaiwi, PE, PTOE

Katelyn Hacker, PE, will become the Immediate Past President and Monica Shei, PE, PTOE, will serve as the Section Representative.

Congratulations to our esteemed award winners:

John LaPlante Award: Dr. Rahim Benekohal

Outstanding Member Award: Jim Kane

Outgoing President Award: Katelyn Hacker

The winners for the Student Scholarship Award was Sanaz Kazemzadehazad a graduate student from Illinois Institute of Technology.

The Student Paper Award was awarded to Sajad Askari from University of Illinois at Chicago for his paper, Leveraging eXplainable GeoAI to Unveil Spatial Non-Stationary Effects of Determinants in Transportation Demand .

Lastly, Illinois Institute of Technology won the Student Chapter Award.

Thank you to our wonderful panel speakers, we hope to hear more from you in the future!

Jon Nelson – Assistant County Engineer, Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT), Scott Hennings, AICP – Assistant Director of Transportation, McHenry County Division of Transportation (MCDOT) , and Nathan Roseberry – Assistant Superintendent, Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways (CCDoTH)

Browse some pictures below, captured by the amazing Craig Jakobson. We are excited to see you at the banquet next year, here’s to a great 2025!