A Wall Street Journal article on U.S. states, cities and counties taking longer to file regular financial reports cites related findings from the Government Finance Research Center at UIC’s recent report on which municipal bond…
A WTTW-TV news online story highlights the role of the Great Cities Institute at UIC in producing a City of Chicago report detailing feedback received during the city’s upcoming budget engagement forums.
Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, and Molly Clark, a research assistant at the center, are two of three authors of an essay published by PA Times, the…
A ProPublica report on Ken Griffin’s investment to defeat an Illinois initiative to set graduated tax includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor and interim dean in the College of Urban Planning…
In a Block Club Chicago article about the city’s first Chicago Mobility Collaborative meeting, Kate Lowe, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, cites the need for a broader set of stakeholders at the…
The Daily Beast quotes Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, in a story about a Jeff Bezos-backed rental investment startup company and the state of the American housing…
A WBEZ investigative story looking into Chicago’s speed camera program cites findings from a city-commissioned study, which was conducted by Stacey Sutton, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, and Nebiyou Tilahun, UIC associate…
An online investigative story from WDRB-TV in Louisville about a large proposed TIF district in the city’s West End area includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor and interim dean in the…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a ProPublica-Sun Herald story examining how Mississippi legislators are spending money from an economic development program backed by funds from BP to compensate…
In a co-authored New York Daily News op-ed, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and a faculty fellow with the UIC Great Cities Institute, writes about New York City’s proposed Penn Station…