Department of Urban Planning and Policy Professor John Betancur was recently received a lifetime achievement award by the Illinois Latino Judges Association. John was honored as a Latinx history maker for his lifetime…
A Crain’s Chicago Business/Better Government Association story on the burden suburban Cook County residents face when property taxes rise and home values collapse includes comments from Michael Pagano, dean of the UIC College…
Crain’s Chicago Business reports on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s appointment of Teresa Córdova, director of the Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy, as chair of the Chicago Plan Commission. http://bit.ly/2yd27bh (subscription…
An Evanston Review article about the growth of co-working spaces in the North Shore includes comments from Joshua Drucker, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, who says these space spaces reflect…
Kate Lowe, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, is scheduled to appear tonight on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” to discuss the performance of the City of Chicago’s e-scooter pilot program since it…
P.S. Sriraj , director of UIC’s Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC was interviewed in a WTTW-TV “Chicago Tonight” segment on a possible public-private partnership involving the Illinois International Port District on…
Capitol Fax, the daily online political newsletter covering Illinois politics, interviewed Amanda Kass, associate director of UIC’s Government Finance Research Center, about her co-authored report examining state intervention in municipal pension funding in…
A Wall Street Journal article about Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards development on Chicago’s North Side features comments and data on tax increment financing (TIF) from Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and…
The Chicago Tribune quoted Rebecca Hendrick, UIC professor of public administration, in a story on debt collection agencies seeking decades old payments on behalf of various Illinois counties. Hendrick says the oversight that…
Jasmine Gunn (MUPP ’18) spoke with WBEZ on July 12 regarding her firm’s census outreach efforts leading up to the 2020 census. Gunn, who is leading the effort, is a project manager at…
