A study recently published by the Great Cities Institute on racial disparities in post-pandemic unemployment rates was featured in a Crain’s Chicago Business article. The story highlighted persistent statewide racial disparities in unemployment…
Recently, Walmart shuttered three stores in predominantly Black and Latino communities on Chicago’s South Side. In an article for the Chicago Tribune, Dr. Weber explains why TIF funds that were used for the development…
IPCE and researchers delivered the second community survey report for the Independent Monitoring Team for the ongoing Chicago Police Consent Decree, led by Maggie Hickey. The Independent Monitoring Team submitted the second Community…
Urban planning is not the same profession as it was in 1986, when Curt Winkle, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, began teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Conversations…
As a profession, urban planning carries lofty ambitions: to imagine new, transformative futures for the places where we live, work, and play, seeing potential and hopeful outcomes that often take years to accomplish.…
Ten years ago, fifty Chicago public schools were closed in a controversial move by the administration of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel due to under enrollment. In the years since, according to a Sun-Times and WBEZ…
Urban Planning and Policy graduate student Cynthia Brito published her commentary on how the Johnson Administration can do a better job of engaging Chicago’s youth in Crain’s Chicago Business on May 30th. Cynthia…
Great Cities Institute at CUPPA has released seven new reports over the last month. In addition to their highly publicized report on youth unemployment in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic, Great Cities Institute…
The “The College Tour” is a new series streaming globally on many channels and now UIC will be a featured episode. UIC students auditioned in February 2023 to be featured on an upcoming…
The AAPOR Award is the American Association for Public Opinion Research lifetime achievement award. It is given for an outstanding contribution to the field of public opinion research, including: advances in theory, empirical…
