This report by TERESA L. CÓRDOVA, PH.D., MATTHEW D. WILSON, AND ANDREW STETTNER investigates a region—the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding communities—where manufacturing was once the largest sector of the economy. The processes of…
Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute in CUPPA, co-authored a Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) op-ed on the Chicago area’s manufacturing sector, its stabilization in recent years and the potential for future…
Congratulations to Merav for being awarded $20,000 by the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, located at Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning. Merav submitted a research proposal entitled “Lathrop—The Human Scale as…
Findings from a recent UIC Great Cities Institute report that examines youth unemployment in Illinois are cited in the following articles: Chicago Tribune: Where violence overshadows the beginning of summer: ‘I just hope it’s…
Amanda has been named a 2018-2019 Society of Woman Geographers (SWG) Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research awardee. The SWG Pruitt National Fellowship Program is a competitive fellowship of up to…
Congratulations to Jasmine Gunn who received the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) 2018 Outstanding Planning Student Award. The AICP Outstanding Student Award recognizes outstanding attainment in the study of planning by students…
MUPP student Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan has been awarded the Field Foundation of Illinois fellowship. The Fellowship is related to the Foundation’s program areas of Justice, Art and Leadership Investment, and aims to offer experience…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, was interviewed during a CBS 2 (WBBM-TV) news segment about Chicago street resurfacing and the city’s efforts to deal with…
The Chicago Tribune and CBS 2 Chicago covered a new UIC Great Cities Institute report, commissioned by the Alternative Schools Network, that examines youth unemployment in Illinois. Report co-authors Teresa Cordova, director of the institute, and Matt…
Kheir Al-Kodmany, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about suburban home buyers seeking more walkable towns rather than sprawling subdivisions. Al-Kodmany credits this two decade…
