Walk Across Illinois: Get Active and Get Going! A vision of the Active Transportation Alliance

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Walk Across Illinois Schools

Walk Across Illinois is committed to the idea that schools should be alive with physically active students engaged in fun, standards-based curricular activities that promote physical activity, active transportation choices and healthy eating. We embrace a world where administrators champion a healthy school environment and parents and educators join the children in embracing physically active lifestyles. We envision communities across Illinois where crosswalks are filled with children walking, rolling and cycling to school.

To fulfill our mission, we have created several FREE programs for elementary schools. All our programs include necessary supplies, curricula, training (with CPDU credits) and incentives. To learn more about each of these FREE programs, click on the program name.

"I think the School Fitness Program is great because it challenges kids to get out, get going and be active. I have a fourth grader and even he says he has to go out and get his miles done - and he turns off the TV and goes."
- Dee Dee Calow Principal, Apple River Middle School

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In 2001, Pat Quinn walked 167 miles across Illinois from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan as part of a campaign for better health care. Today, you can follow Gov. Quinn’s path on the Walk Across Illinois Introductory Route. This is a perfect route if you are starting an exercise routine.

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Lincoln, Illinois, is the only town that was named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president. As a young man, Lincoln was known to walk miles to borrow a book and walk miles to return it.

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Walk Across Illinois: Get Active and Get Going! Avision of Active Transportation Alliance