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Water Rate Setting Study Released

UIC’s Government Finance Research Center (GFRC) released its first report for the Illinois General Assembly’s commissioned study on water rate setting. This first project focuses on the Lake Michigan Service Area. Read the…

Curt Winkle, Associate Professor

Winkle Retires from UIC Urban Planning and Policy

Urban planning is not the same profession as it was in 1986, when Curt Winkle, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, began teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Conversations…

Tina Fassett Smith

MUPP Alum Fassett Smith to Receive Marek Award

As a profession, urban planning carries lofty ambitions: to imagine new, transformative futures for the places where we live, work, and play, seeing potential and hopeful outcomes that often take years to accomplish.…

George Maxwell, Public Policy Major

Public Policy Student Cast in The College Tour

The “The College Tour” is a new series streaming globally on many channels and now UIC will be a featured episode. UIC students auditioned in February 2023 to be featured on an upcoming…

Tim Johnson, Professor Emeritus

CUPPA Emeritus Prof Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The AAPOR Award is the American Association for Public Opinion Research lifetime achievement award. It is given for an outstanding contribution to the field of public opinion research, including: advances in theory, empirical…

David Merriman

PPMA Prof Appointed IGPA Interim Director

David F. Merriman has been appointed interim director of the University of Illinois System’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), system Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs Nicholas P.…