Brian Flood, Media Contact: Phone: (312) 996-7681 | Email: bflood@uic.edu | Twitter: @bfloodUIC|Posted on April 24, 2018
Cities, states and local governments rely heavily on sales, property and income taxes to increase revenues and contend with everything from aging streets, sewers and bridges to growing debt, long-term pension obligations…
Steve Schlickman, UIC adjunct assistant professor of urban planning and policy and former director of the Urban Transportation Center at UIC, is quoted in a Better Government Association/Crain’s Chicago Business story on Metra’s…
In an segment heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Kate Lowe, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, was interviewed about Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed rail line connecting O’Hare Airport to the Loop. Chicago…
Professor Rachel Weber has been elected to serve as the Board of Directors of the Oak Park Residence Corporation. The Oak Park Residence Corporation is a community-based, non-profit housing development corporation. Its primary mission…
Moira Zellner, Research Associate Professor for the Inst. for Environmental Science and Policy, and UPP Associate Professor, will be a panelist discussing “Teaching and Leading on Science in Times of Uncertainty” at the…
Does your organization collect data that no one has time to analyze? Do you have projects that get postponed due to a lack of resources? Do you need expertise to assess a management…
This report by TERESA L. CÓRDOVA, PH.D., MATTHEW D. WILSON, AND ANDREW STETTNER investigates a region—the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding communities—where manufacturing was once the largest sector of the economy. The processes of…
Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute in CUPPA, co-authored a Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) op-ed on the Chicago area’s manufacturing sector, its stabilization in recent years and the potential for future…
Congratulations to Merav for being awarded $20,000 by the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, located at Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning. Merav submitted a research proposal entitled “Lathrop—The Human Scale as…
