The CMAP plan, which is the federally recognized Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Illinois portion of the Chicago Tri-State metro-region, area covers the seven counties closest to the City of Chicago, and represents 89% of the metro-region’s population.5 This unit will be used primarily to discuss transportation and environmental data. The MPO corresponding to the Indiana portion of the Chicago Tri-State metro-region is the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC), and the MPO corresponding to the Wisconsin portion of the Chicago Tri-State metro-region is the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC). These units will be used especially when discussing innovation data to provide comparisons with other TL2 OECD Regions.6 In this case, we will refer essentially to Illinois which corresponds to 91% of the metro-region’s population.