Gia Biagi, who currently serves as the Commissioner for the Chicago Department of Transportation, has seen her career take many directions since she finished her Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy at CUPPA…
The role of UIC’s Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement in a collaborative study, “Illinois Muslims: Needs, Assets, And Opportunities,” is highlighted in a segment and online story from WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight.”
Nik Theodore, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and director of the Center for Urban Economic Development , provides perspective on guaranteed income in City Bureau story. Read more here: Guaranteed Income…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, discusses access to public parks in WBEZ Article. Read more here: Residents near Douglass Park want a voice in permits for big music festivals
Chris Poulos, a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC, discusses civic engagement and community organizing work in Chicago with WTTW-TV News. Find the full…
Streetsblog Chicago interviewed Jack Rocha, a community development planner with the Great Cities Institute at UIC, about the 100th Street Calumet River Project, which is a result of organizing work that the institute started…
The American Prospect interviewed Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, and Philip Rocco, a political scientist at Marquette University, about their research on American Rescue Plan fund expenditures by…
In a CBS 2 Chicago story, P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center at UIC, addresses how much credit should be given to license plate reading cameras for a 33 percent drop in Illinois…
The latest IRRPP report, “Changing the Frame: Civic Engagement Through A Racial Equity Lens,” opens a discussion of the racial implications of assessing civic health through narrow voting and volunteering parameters. You can…
