South Side Weekly quotes James Lewis, a senior research specialist in UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on political representation and fragmentation in the Englewood neighborhood. Lewis says issues of political power…
MPA student Kori Bertrun recently published a piece entitled, “Why AmeriCorps?” in the PA Times. Kori studied national service organizations in Spring 2018 under the direction of Dr. LeRoux and outlined reasons why AmeriCorps is an invaluable…
Findings from the UIC Great Cities Institute’s leadership succession survey of Chicagoland family-owned manufacturing companies are cited in a Forbes.com article about the work of Manufacturing Renaissance, the nonprofit organization that commissioned and released the…
The Great Cities Institute at UIC has released its report on the Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago: A Research-Based Reorientation of Violence Prevention and Intervention Policy. The report is a follow up…
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 of PA and with the University of Illinois’…
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…
