A Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM 91.5) report on what Chicago can do to address segregation and inequality cites findings from a 2017 report from the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at UIC that…
Findings from a UIC Great Cities Institute survey, commissioned and released by the nonprofit organization Manufacturing Renaissance, are featured in a Chicago Tribune story looking at how, and if, family-owned manufacturing companies in Chicago’s six collar…
Michael A. Pagano, Dean of CUPPA and Director of the GFRC, authored an article in Governing on the nation’s infrastructure investment deficit. Pagano argues that a federal infrastructure bill would be legislators’ most direct path…
Rachel Weber, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of UPP, was recently interviewed in a City Road Podcast during which she discusses her new book From Boom to Bubble about Chicago’s “Milennial Boom”. Weber debunks the…
A Worcester Business Journal article on municipalities giving tax breaks to keep businesses local and spur economic growth includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban…
IRRPP is pleased to welcome Dr. Faith Kares as an Associate Director of the institute. Dr. Kares brings a strong portfolio to the institute that combines both professional work experiences and academic research.…
A Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association/PolitiFact story assessing claims by Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas that Chicago Public Schools was a financially healthier organization under his leadership includes comments from Amanda Kass, associate director…
In the Daily Herald’s 2019 transportation projection, former UTC Director, Steve Schlickman, predicts that Governor-Elect Pritzker will hit the ground running with a major capital funding initiative. Schlickman states that Pritzker’s “proposal will likely…
Findings from the UIC Great Cities Institute’s 2017 Pilsen Quality-of-Life Plan are cited in a Chicago Sun-Times story about a networking seminar for developers and real estate brokers that was held in Pilsen. http://bit.ly/2QvYmsW
A Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association/PolitiFact story on Chicago mayoral candidate Bill Daley’s pledge to freeze property taxes includes comments from Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, who…
