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…
In interview with WKNY-AM, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, discusses the concept of participatory budgeting in advance of a related pilot project being launched in Kingston, New York. http://bit.ly/2Mg80ha
Urban Planning & Policy PhD student Junjun Zheng has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Resource Conservation Technical Coordinating Committee of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA). The elections…
Zorica Nedovic-Budic, UPP Department Head, presented at the Kavil Future’s Symposium: Sensing the City – Urban Sensing for Planning and Peace Making. All other videos from the symposium can be found here.
Rachel Weber gives her thoughts on the Wisconsin Foxconn deal and and the Amazon Headquarters potential locations. “Professor Weber pauses, wanting to balance what might be perceived as pessimism. “I’m not always just…
Mr. Newsome is the newly elected Student Member of the Board of Trustees representing the UIC campus. As UIC Student Trustee, Mr. Newsome’s objective will be to ensure that the voices of all…
Amanda Kass, GFRC Associate Director, was a panelist on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a segment on the withholding of Illinois state funds from municipalities that short their police and fire pension funds, and…
As part of the effort to draft a consent decree on police reform that meets the needs of Chicago’s residents, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office solicited input from the community through 14 community…
As part of the Nathalie Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement’s ongoing research on growing income inequality in Chicago entitled “Who Can Live in Chicago?”, the Voorhees Center investigated Chicago Public Schools…
