July 17, 2023 As municipalities contract with the City of Chicago to supply fresh water from Lake Michigan, a new report from University of Illinois Chicago researchers recommends that plans include supplying recycled…
Public Policy, Management, and Analytics Professor Emerita Rebecca Hendrick participated in WalletHub’s 2023 study of the most and least independent US states. Read the full story at this link.
A recent article in Crain’s Chicago Business cited a study by the Center for Research on Race and Public Policy that highlighted the difference in the average home value of white households compared…
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…
