Brian Flood, Media Contact: Phone: (312) 996-7681 | Email: bflood@uic.edu | Twitter: @bfloodUIC|Posted on April 24, 2018
Cities, states and local governments rely heavily on sales, property and income taxes to increase revenues and contend with everything from aging streets, sewers and bridges to growing debt, long-term pension obligations…
In interview with WKNY-AM, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, discusses the concept of participatory budgeting in advance of a related pilot project being launched in Kingston, New York. http://bit.ly/2Mg80ha
Urban Planning & Policy PhD student Junjun Zheng has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Resource Conservation Technical Coordinating Committee of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA). The elections…
Zorica Nedovic-Budic, UPP Department Head, presented at the Kavil Future’s Symposium: Sensing the City – Urban Sensing for Planning and Peace Making. All other videos from the symposium can be found here.
Rachel Weber gives her thoughts on the Wisconsin Foxconn deal and and the Amazon Headquarters potential locations. “Professor Weber pauses, wanting to balance what might be perceived as pessimism. “I’m not always just…
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…
As part of the Nathalie Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement’s ongoing research on growing income inequality in Chicago entitled “Who Can Live in Chicago?”, the Voorhees Center investigated Chicago Public Schools…
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…
