
The 2022 Budget Community Engagement process was the earliest and most multi-faceted engagement process ever conducted for the City’s budget, with the help of UIC’s Neighborhoods Initiative (UICNI) at the Great Cities Institute.
Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Thanks to efforts from Aldermen Maria Hadden and David Moore, the City of Chicago, will now commemorate Juneteenth, the day in 1865, when Union troops rode into Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been declared two years earlier.
In light of the recent protests and outrage against the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman as well as continuing police brutality, especially in black communities, we are reminded both of the Kerner Commission Report and the March 2018 Great Cities Institute event to commemorate the 50 years since its release.