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Rob Paral Quoted in Crain's Chicago and WBEZ on Remapping

A Crain’s Chicago Business story about the Chicago City Council ward remapping process includes analysis from Rob Paral, senior research specialist with UIC’s Great Cities Institute, who reports on what changes would take…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

David Merriman quoted in WBEZ Story on TIFs

David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at UIC, is quoted in a WBEZ story on Chicago mayors using tax increment financing to spur…

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Voorhees Study on Housing Prices Around Obama Center Cited

A 2019 study by UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement on housing prices around the future Obama Presidential Center is cited in a Crain’s Chicago Business June 8 story…

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Truthout Interviews Beth Gutelius

Truthout interviewed Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development and senior researcher at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, in a story about Amazon’s new WorkingWell program, which is…