Gazette Chicago quotes Kate Lowe, Assistant Professor of UPP, in a story about opposition to a retail development in Bridgeport that would feature a Starbucks. Read the full story here.
Stacey Sutton, Professor of UPP, was featured in a Chicago Newsroom segment focusing on the ways in which municipalities exacerbate poverty through escalating fines and punishments for traffic violations. Watch the full segment here.
A Chicago Sun-Times editorial cites proposed state legislation that would involve GFRC‘s issuing a future report on “reasons for increasing water rates; any evidence of inappropriate rate-setting, and what challenges water rates pose to economically disadvantaged…
NPR Illinois’ “Statewide” program featured an interview with Amanda Kass, Associate Director of the GFRC and PhD candidate in UPP, who discussed Governor J.B. Pritzker’s budget plan that would reduce the state’s share of public…
A WBEZ story on Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s call for suggestions to improve Chicago in arts, education, public safety and other areas of civic life highlights “out-of-the-box” ideas from Michael Pagano, dean of the…
David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and with the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs, is quoted in a…
Department of Urban Planning and Policy Professor Sanjeev Vidyarthi will lead as Chief Tutor of the Arcasia Teachers Training Workshop. The week-long workshop will combine pedagogically useful insights, practical case studies, and relevant…
The Hyde Park Herald interviewed Janet Smith, Professor of UPP and Co-Director of the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, about the push to lift Illinois’ ban on rent control. Smith says rent control can…
Urban Planning and Policy Professor Emerita Raffaella Nanetti’s latest book, Democracy and Growth in the Twenty-first Century, compares economic growth performance of Italy and China considering the global, political, and social situations in…
Public Policy Senior Ivan Cazarin’s policy proposal, “Chicago’s $1 Large Lots Program: Localizing Economic Redevelopment,” was published in 10 Ideas Journal by the Roosevelt Institute. Cazarin proposes “to reduce the number of vacant…
