Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, is quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association fact-check story on Republican attorney general candidate Erika Harold. A Harold campaign ad…
In three plans for their Plan Making Studio class, UIC MUPP students’ ideas for a vacant 77-acre site on the Chicago River embrace equity, urban design, and sustainability. All three plans were given…
Dr. Stacey Sutton’s work with a colleague from John Marshall School of Law on Chicagoland Cooperative Ecosystem Coalition (CCEC) is mentioned in Forbes. This work is part of an initiative led by the…
Marcia J. Lipetz, 71, a foundational person in the Chicago LGBT community and adjunct professor in the Department of Public Administration, has died. Marcia started teaching for DPA in the fall of 2011.…
Kim Lovely, current MUPP student in the Urban Planning and Policy department, has been awarded the American Planning Association Foundation’s Judith McManus Price Scholarship. This scholarship is geared toward women and minority students intending…
A City Lab article examining the effectiveness of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in spurring economic development highlights findings from a new Lincoln Institute of Land Policy report from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential…
In Law 360 Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center, looks back at some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial tax policies.
Amanda Kass, GFRC associate director, was a panelist on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a segment on the withholding of Illinois state funds from municipalities that short their police and fire pension funds, and…
In Gazette Chicago, Michael Pagano, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs offers suggestions for the Cook County Board as they consider creating a revenue forecasting commission.
