Austin Weekly News quotes Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute at UIC, in an article recapping the Chicagoland Manufacturing Renaissance Council’s recent panel that explored ways manufacturing companies can become more…
Nik Theodore, CUPPA Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs and Professor of UPP, co-authored a piece in Global Dialogue offering a comparative analysis of domestic worker organizing across time and place. Through their ongoing…
Michael A. Pagano, CUPPA Dean, Director of the GFRC, and Professor of PA, co-authored a report published in Brookings that focuses on the ways in which the 2018 midterm elections reshaped state and local governments’…
Beth Gutelius, GCI Senior Research Specialist, was cited in a recent New York Times article on the strides made by Somali Amazon employees in Minnesota to negotiate better warehouse working conditions. For the first time…
Kate Lowe, Assistant Professor in UPP, co-authored an article published in the Transportation Research Record on the impacts of closing several vehicle emissions testing facilities in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. While these closures cut…
In a recent article for the ASPA’s publication PA Times, David Merriman, PA Professor, provides insight on the benefits and challenges of TIF. While the creation of TIF districts serve to stimulate economic development, and…
CUPPA Undergraduate student, Parrish Brown, was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times regarding displacement of residents by the Obama Center. “The Obama Center coming to the South Side of Chicago … is something that…
Block Club Chicago cites findings from a 2016 Pilsen gentrification report co-authored by John Betancur, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, in an article about Chicago’s new pilot program to preserve the…
Jack Rocha, a community development planner with UIC’s Great Cities Institute, is quoted in a WBEZ/Better Government Association project story examining Dolton, Illinois, and the impact of deindustrialization. Rocha addresses job trends following…
Professor Rachel Weber examines the factors behind Chicago Public School closures in a new article in the Urban Affairs Review. Weber found that while poor academic performance and faculty under-utilization were factors, schools…
