Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Steve Schlickman, executive director of the Urban Transportation Center, appeared on FOX 32 News to discuss Metra's operational problems, potholes and road construction, and the project to add lanes to the Kennedy Expressway.
Crain's Chicago Business mentions the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement in an article about brain-storming meetings to be held by 10,000 Chicago business and civic leaders on March 12.
A Streetwise editorial extensively quotes Janet Smith, co-director of the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, about her research into the CHA's Plan for Transformation.
In an article on the need to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, the Morris County (NJ) Daily Record quotes Howard Wial, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, as saying that the long decline has left some manufacturers unaccustomed to hiring and unsure about how to recruit workers with the updated skills they need.
John Hagedorn, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article on the Chicago Public Schools' Safe Passage program to provide security for children going to new schools. John was a GCI Faculty Scholar 2012-13.