Who we are and why we exist.
Founded April 2026
501(c)(3) Nonprofit
“We fight for transit. For everyone.”
We are building Illinois's first statewide mobility management network — connecting county-level transit advocacy into a coordinated statewide voice.
We start from a working local model in Kane County, expand program by program across Illinois, and design everything to be replicable — so other states can do the same.
The transit system that exists today was built to serve the communities that already had service. We're here to build what comes next.
Three strategic pillars.
Research & Documentation
We identify, quantify, and document transit gaps that existing data systems miss. Our planned Unmet Demand Registry will count transit-dependent residents who have no existing service, creating quantifiable data on invisible unmet need. The waiting list itself becomes the advocacy tool — transforming individual hardship into aggregate evidence that decision-makers cannot ignore.
Policy & Advocacy
We translate documented need into specific, actionable policy positions and bring them directly to the decision-makers who control funding, service design, and eligibility criteria. Every policy position we advance is grounded in verifiable data and designed to survive the question: how do you pay for it?
Coalition Building
We organize the local partnerships that transit agencies require to deploy new service. Programs like Pace On Demand and VanGo require a municipal partner to provide infrastructure and co-announce the launch. When nobody in an underserved community has organized that partnership, the service never arrives. We fill that gap.
Starting local. Building statewide.
Connect Kane
Flagship programFocused on closing transit gaps in Kane County — particularly the western half of the county, which has zero fixed-route service. Connect Kane's first campaign advocates for Pace On Demand expansion and a county-level transit grant fund.
Connect DuPage
Active programAddressing first-mile access and equity in DuPage County, working alongside the county's own Mobility Framework Plan to ensure underserved populations are represented in service planning decisions.