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Prof Carr Quoted in Forth Worth Star-Telegram

Jered Carr, UIC professor and head of public administration, is quoted in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram examining Fort Worth’s form of city government, which operates under a council-manager system. Carr addresses the challenges…

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UPP's Rachel Weber on Wisconsin Public Radio

Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, in a story on the publically-funded salary for the project director hired to oversee the Foxconn development in Racine County.…

Obama Presidential Center Rendering in Jackson Park, Chicago

Voorhees Center Study Quoted in The Guardian

A story from The Guardian (UK) about the Obama Presidential Center and fears over gentrification includes findings from an earlier study on housing prices in the area by UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center…

P.S. Sriraj

UTC Director on Gulf Coast's Potential New Amtrak Line

The Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, WWNO in New Orleans and NPR, quotes P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor…

Colombian Unrest

Ph.D. Student Alejandra Marín Buitrago On Colombian Unrest

Alejandra Marín Buitrago, Ph.D. student in Urban Planning, authored an article in CounterPunch titled, “Columbia on the Brink,” on the Colombian civil unrest that began last week in response to austerity policies. Read the…

Stacey Sutton

The Atlantic Cites Gentrification Research By Stacey Sutton

Gentrification research by Stacey Sutton, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, is cited in a column from The Atlantic that details archaeological work shedding light on the origins of gentrification that…