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…
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…
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…
Worst time to drive in Chicago this Fourth of July holiday? Today’s evening rush hour. Steve Schlickman, past UTC Executive Director and CUPPA adjunct faculty, is quoted in this Tribune article on holiday traffic.
Moira Zellner and Pierre Bommel (CIRAD) taught a one-week workshop on “Multi-Agent Systems Modeling for environmental science and policy” at the Universidad de la Republica (UdelaR), in Uruguay. This hands-on workshop is the…
Does your organization collect data that no one has time to analyze? Do you have projects that get postponed due to a lack of resources? Do you need expertise to assess a management…
This report by TERESA L. CÓRDOVA, PH.D., MATTHEW D. WILSON, AND ANDREW STETTNER investigates a region—the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding communities—where manufacturing was once the largest sector of the economy. The processes of…
Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute in CUPPA, co-authored a Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) op-ed on the Chicago area’s manufacturing sector, its stabilization in recent years and the potential for future…
