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…
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…
Dr. P.S. Sriraj, Director of the Urban Transportation Center (UTC), was quoted in a Naperville Sun article on the challenges faced by commuters who want to secure a parking space along some Metra routes, specifically the…
Congratulations to UIC Professor Emeritus Dr. David Boyce, the recipient of this year’s Jim Marek Alumni Appreciation Award. Throughout his 37 year tenure at UIC, he served as the Director of the Urban Transportation Center and…
The Roosevelt Institute is the nation’s first student policy organization and largest student think tank. The Institute brings together a group of thinkers and doers to research, write, and implement policy at the…
The Chicago Reporter interviews Stacey Sutton, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, in a story examining worker cooperatives and the challenges they face to get started in Illinois. Sutton addresses the…
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…
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…
Congratulations to Patrick Magoon, President & CEO of Lurie Children’s (MUPP ‘79), who received the 2018 UIC Alumni Achievement Award! Magoon began working at Lurie over 40 years ago while pursuing his MUPP degree…
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…
