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A NBCNews.com article on health and safety issues facing warehouse workers amid the pandemic and the busy holiday season includes comments from Nik Theodore, fellow at the Great Cities Institute.
Teresa Cordova is interviewed during WGN-TV News’ latest “Back to Work” segment that explores the shift some people are making from certain downtown Chicago zip codes to the suburbs or North Side neighborhoods due to the pandemic.
In a Q&A with Crain’s Chicago Business, Teresa Córdova, director of GCI, along with Samuel Kling, discuss the future of Chicago—and of cities in general—in a post-pandemic world.
Matthew Wilson, a senior research specialist Great Cities Institute, is quoted in Chicago Tribune story on whether or not millennials are moving from Chicago in the wake of COVID-19.
Roberto Aspholm, one of the authors of GCI's report The Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago, is quoted in a WTTW Chicago Tonight story on the need to change the police departments response to gangs and violence in Chicago.
Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a GCI senior fellow, is quoted in a Chicago magazine article about the social and architectural function of balconies in the city and the history of their growing demand, particularly during the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
Roberto Aspholm and John Hagedorn, two of the co-authors of the GCI report "The Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago" wrote an opinion piece for the Chicago Sun-Times on the relationship between COVID-19 and Chicago's gun violence.
Beth Gutelius, senior researcher for GCI, is interviewed in an online story from NPR's Washington D.C. affiliate WAMU-FM that examines the potential impacts of coronavirus on hourly workers and independent contractors in the U.S.
Teresa Córdova was a featured panelists last night on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a segment about Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s poverty summit, the city’s history of poverty, and policy proposals.
A Chicago Tribune article previewing today’s poverty summit hosted by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot includes perspective from Teresa Córdova. Cordova says the event is a good step forward to address the city’s issues related to poverty, which were exacerbated by a large decrease in manufacturing jobs.