Mr. Newsome is the newly elected Student Member of the Board of Trustees representing the UIC campus. As UIC Student Trustee, Mr. Newsome’s objective will be to ensure that the voices of all…
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…
As part of the effort to draft a consent decree on police reform that meets the needs of Chicago’s residents, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office solicited input from the community through 14 community…
As part of the Nathalie Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement’s ongoing research on growing income inequality in Chicago entitled “Who Can Live in Chicago?”, the Voorhees Center investigated Chicago Public Schools…
Professor Bob Chirinko presented a paper, “What Went Wrong? The Puerto Rican Debt Crisis and the ‘Treasury Put'”, at the 2018 Municipal Finance Conference in DC. Full Report here. Brookings has a write up of…
Dean Michael A. Pagano was one of the authors for a report just released by the Brookings Metropolitican Policy Program. It discusses the variations between cities’ revenue sources and budgetary constraints that shape…
Amanda Kass is the Associate Director of the Government Finance Research Center. As Associate Director she designs, conducts, and manages research in the GFRC’s priority areas. Amanda also works with the faculty and external…
The Urban Transportation Center (UTC) just published the Summer 2018 issue of the UTC Connector newsletter. Check it out! The Connector is produced and published quarterly by the Urban Transportaton Center, a research unit within the…
The Urban Planning and Policy Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking to fill a position for a Geospatial Data Scientist: This position is responsible for teaching activities and managing and…
