P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center, addresses increased traffic congestion due to e-commerce in a Crain’s Chicago Business article about Amazon becoming the largest private employer in the Chicago area.
Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development and senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute, joined Dissent magazine’s “Belabored” podcast to discuss the current state of warehouse work.
Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute, joined a panel on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices” that covered the future of manufacturing and land use in Chicago in the wake of the city rejecting…
Chicago’s Millennium Park, built in 2004, is the world’s largest rooftop garden & a key attraction in the windy city. A new three-part video case study examines how Millennium Park was financed and is…
April Jackson, associate professor of urban planning and policy, and William Butler, FSU associate professor of urban and regional planning, and Tisha Holmes, FSU assistant professor of urban and regional planning, co-authored the…
The impact of so-called “ghost buses,” or buses cited through online tracking that don’t arrive as scheduled, is noted in a Medill Reports Chicago article by Raphael Hippos. UTC Director P.S. Sriraj commented, stating that the CTA…
A Crain’s Chicago Business article examining the state of infrastructure in Chicago and how President Biden’s infrastructure bill could change the city includes comments from Kate Lowe, associate professor of urban planning and policy, and P.S. Sriraj,…
A USA Today article about the Obama Presidential Center cites findings from a 2019 report on housing prices in the area by Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.
A Bloomberg News story on rising gas prices includes perspective from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor and interim dean, about whether proposed tax relief efforts will be beneficial.
Part of the Natalie P. Voorhees Center, the Illinois Defense Network released it’s fourth quarter newsletter here. The Voorhees Center received funding from the Department of Defense’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC)…
