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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…

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.…

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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…

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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…