Participatory Budgeting Chicago (PB Chicago), one of the Great Cities Institute’s main programmatic priorities, will be tripling in size this coming year.
PB Chicago is Expanding!
GCI and WEJ Form Partnership to Promote Economic Justice for Women
The Great Cities Institute (GCI) and Women for Economic Justice (WEJ) engaged in a two-day workshop on building women’s economic power.
New Semester, New Projects, New Scholarship
Welcome to the start of the Fall 2015 Semester. This is always a busy, though exciting time, as we prepare for the start of a new academic year. We send good wishes to all as we wind down summer and prepare for the fall season.
A Stronger Commercial Avenue = A Stronger South Chicago
The Great Cities Institute is pleased to announce its upcoming commercial corridor revitalization project on South Commercial Avenue in the South Chicago community.
Corridor Planning for Commercial Revitalization
The Great Cities Institute (GCI) is pleased to announce its upcoming commercial corridor revitalization planning project on West Chicago Avenue in Chicago’s Austin community.
Director’s Blog: Summer Update
As we wrap up the 2014-2015 academic year, we at Great Cities Institute are busily preparing another round of events, research activities, urban design projects, and collaborations.
Global Health and Well Being Seed Grant Competition – Deadline Extended
The Global Health and Well Being Seed Grant program to foster new trans-disciplinary and mixed and multiple methods research in global health and well-being at UIC is now in its second year.
Cities Across the Globe Program
The program for the Second Annual Cities Across the Globe Symposium is now available. Join us on Wednesday and Thursday for this two day symposium.
Join us for the Cities Across the Globe Symposium, April 29-30
UIC’s Great Cities Institute’s presents its 2nd Annual Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders symposium on April 29th and 30th to address key questions around economic vitality, poverty, space and place, urban development and international trade, transnational migration and settlement, borders, and an array of issues related to the contemporary urbanization dynamics.
GCI announces 2015-2016 Faculty Scholars
Great Cities Institute is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 GCI Faculty Scholars. A criterion for judging the proposals was the extent to which they address UIC and GCI’s Great Cities Commitment to connect scholarship and the quality of life in cities and metropolitan regions.