The Great Migration of blacks to Chicago from the 1920s through the 1950s ushered in a major period of transformation for the city. In contrast, the past three decades are far removed from…
Kate Lowe, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, was interviewed by ABC7 Chicago (WLS-TV) for a story about Chicago’s plans to launch a second pilot program for electric scooters and the city’s…
A WBEZ story about a proposed city ordinance to prevent displacement in the Woodlawn neighborhood highlights findings from a report by UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement that examines…
Janet Smith, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and co-director Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, was interviewed by ABC7 (WLS-TV) for a segment about gentrification in Humboldt Park and the changing neighborhood…
P.S. Sriraj, director of UIC’s Urban Transportation Center, is quoted in a Chicago Reader column calling for Chicago to create a busway similar to a new one in New York City that has…
Teresa Córdova, director of the UIC Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy, is one of three featured experts that Crain’s Chicago Business talked to about Chicago’s economy and the…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, and Steve Schlickman, UIC adjunct assistant professor and former director of the Urban Transportation Center, were quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times editorial…
A Chicago Tribune staff summary of favorite stories of 2019 includes comments from Merriman, who was interviewed in an article profiling the organizers of the movement to separate the state of Illinois from Cook County.…
WCPN Radio, the NPR affiliate station in Cleveland, interviewed P.S. Sriraj, director of UIC’s Urban Transportation Center, in a segment about a new feasibility study for a proposed hyperloop project that would transport…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, was interviewed in an article from The Nation magazine about teachers unions fighting against municipal tax incentives and economic development programs that help developers…
