John J. Betancur, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy, is being awarded the 2019 Silver Circle Award! Professor Betancur has been a faculty member in CUPPA for over thirty years. He has worked…
Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor of UPP and Faculty Fellow in IRRPP,received the 2019 Best Conference Paper Award, Honorable Mention at the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference! Professor Sutton’s paper, “Cooperative Cities: Municipal Support for…
Streetsblog Chicago’s overage of the “Our City 2049” panel discussion includes quotes from P.S. Sriraj, director of UIC’s Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, who was among the featured panelists to…
Emeritus Professor Charlie Hoch was mentioned in a Chicago Tribune-Oak Leaves News article discussing what might be the state’s first ‘cohousing’ site. Hoch and his wife, Susan Stall, are one of the founding households…
Public Administration PhD student Victor Hugg recently published “Public Service-Function Types and Interlocal Agreement Network Structure: A Longitudinal Study of Iowa” in the Urban Affairs Review. Read his study of interlocal service delivery networks at the…
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…
