Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
As part of a Crain’s Chicago Business series covering the various issues facing Chicago, GCI director Teresa Córdova writes that the city’s strategy to address gun violence needs to adapt to the changing nature of gangs.
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.
An analysis of Chicago youth unemployment conducted by Great Cities Institute is cited in a column in The Atlantic.
A Chicago Tribune op-ed on how Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot can address violence in Chicago cites GCI’s earlier report on the changing nature of gangs in the city and the need for policies and policymakers to adjust.
Crain's Chicago Business quoted GCI Director Teresa Córdova on challenges newly elected Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot will face in the coming months.
CBS 2 (WBBM-TV) interviewed Teresa Córdova, director of UIC’s Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy, in a segment on related to a Brookings Institution report on millennial migration figures for major U.S. cities.
The New York Times quotes Beth Gutelius, a senior research specialist at UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on Amazon’s expansion and the company’s mixed success with building community relationships.
A Forbes article cites a study by Great Cities Institute on manufacturing ownership succession. The article talks with Dan Swinney of Manufacturing Renaissance about the newly launched Ownership Conversion Project.
Great Cities Institute was a part of the working group that helped to shape the "first-of-its-kind tool to identify the experiences, resources, opportunities and supports that have the most impact on Chicago’s youth"
Nik Theodore, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a blog post from In These Times that examines proposed federal legislation to improve wages and labor conditions for domestic workers.