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…
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
“Public policy courses have broader applications and essentially bridge together the information that I learn in my major courses,” said Mehroz Mohammed, a public policy minor. Mohammed wrote a thoughtful UIC News piece on how…
Chicago, a city known worldwide for its planning and design, will have its first-ever graduate degree in city design when the University of Illinois at Chicago launches a new program next fall. The…
WBEZ’s “The Morning Shift” interviewed David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and with the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs,…
Michael A. Pagano, CUPPA Dean, Director of the GFRC, and Professor of PA, co-authored a report published in Brookings that focuses on the ways in which the 2018 midterm elections reshaped state and local governments’…
In a recent article for the ASPA’s publication PA Times, David Merriman, PA Professor, provides insight on the benefits and challenges of TIF. While the creation of TIF districts serve to stimulate economic development, and…
Jack Rocha, a community development planner with UIC’s Great Cities Institute, is quoted in a WBEZ/Better Government Association project story examining Dolton, Illinois, and the impact of deindustrialization. Rocha addresses job trends following…
