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Ciere Boatright, Chicago's new commissioner for planning and development, far right talking with three CUPPA undergraduate students after a class presentation.

MUPP Alum to Run Chicago Planning Department

Urban Planning and Policy 2016 graduate, Ciere Boatright, has been appointed commissioner for Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Her appointment will begin on Nov. 20. You can…

Mapping Vulnerability to Chicago's Lead Service Lines, by Grace Li and Bailey Foster

UPP Students Win Two GIS Research Awards

UPP students won two awards for their GIS research posters at two separate conferences last week! Graduate students Bailey Foster and Grace Li won the award for best student poster at the Illinois…

Teresa Cordova and WGN news anchor

Great Cities Institute Featured on WGN News' Adelante Chicago

Adelante Chicago’s Lourdes Duarte interviewed Great Cities Institute director, Teresa Córdova, on the Institute’s Latino research initiative. Watch the interview on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUIOBwesOLc&t=4s.

map of area around lower Lake Michigan including Illinois and the City of Chicago

Urban Planning and Policy Celebrates 50 Years

When Andy Bavas was appointed the director of graduate studies for the newly-founded Masters of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) program at what was then called the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle,…

Dr. David Merriman

What Happened to Foxconn in Pleasant Prairie, WI

David Merriman, interim director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and professor of Public Policy, Management and Analytics, was quoted in a story in the Washington Post on the “ill-fated” Foxconn…