Dean Michael Pagano responds to questions about city revenues in our current booming economy. Featured in Governing Magazine, Pagano’s article cites faults in cities’ tax systems as the cause of the slow return…
UIC has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment to support economic research and resiliency in Illinois’ military-connected communities. The grant accompanies phase two of…
Style, a weekly alternative newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, quotes David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and with the University of Illinois’ Institute of…
Rahim Kurwa, UIC assistant professor in the department of criminology, law and justice, and Matt Wilson, a senior research specialist at UIC’s Great Cities Institute, are among the featured experts cited by the…
A recent Chicago Tribune article, “University of Illinois at Chicago flourishes amid struggles at state’s public universities” highlights the growth of UIC relative to other colleges in the system: “For the past decade, as the state’s public…
UIC is fortunate to have Dr. Tomoko Kubo spending the next year in Chicago, where she will be focusing her studies on equity planning. Dr. Kubo is the Assistant Professor in the Faculty…
MUPP alum (’10) Steven Vance co-authored a CityLab article that presents a transportation platform for the Chicago mayoral candidates’ consideration. Vance and the other co-authors argue that this race presents an opportunity to advance key…
According to this study, published by the University of Illinois System, UIC contributes $7.6 billion to the state annually. Furthermore, UIC supports 171,000 jobs (1 in every 46 jobs) across the state. Check out…
A Chicago Gazette editorial on Tax Increment Financing (TIF) cites findings from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, whose recent released report examines…
