Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Rachel Havrelock, co-founder of UIC's Freshwater Lab and associate professor of English, is the subject of a Great Lakes Now profile highlighting her work on water issues and the Great Lakes from a humanities and social science perspective.
Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, was interviewed in a WBEZ news story on Chicago Public Schools' enrollment decline and whether the system may need to close more schools next year when a self-imposed five-year moratorium ends.
USA TODAY cites findings from a recent report on Chicago's Latino neighborhoods and population produced by UIC's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and UIC's Great Cities Institute in a story about undocumented immigrants studying at City Colleges of Chicago, where many are Chicago Star Scholarship recipients.
The Chicago Sun-Times, WBBM-AM, and DNAinfo Chicago have stories on “The Latino Neighborhoods Report: Issues and Prospects for Chicago,” a new report released by UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and UIC’s Great Cities Institute.
John Hagedorn, UIC professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice, and a Senior Research Specialist with Great Cities Institute, is quoted in an article from The Economist about the growth of Chicago’s Latino population.
In collaboration with Great Cities Institute, a researcher with Huff Post has mapped San Antonio's "Hardship Index," revealing striking patterns of poverty.
Teresa Córdova, director of the UIC Great Cities Institute, was interviewed by Stateline regarding the gentrification of Chinatowns across the country, and how Chicago’s Chinatown is an outlier experiencing a growing Asian population.
Crain’s Chicago Business cites data from UIC's Great Cities Institute on Chicago neighborhood violence in a story about the challenges of developing the former South Works steel plant.
UIC’s Great Cities Institute assisted with Crain’s Chicago Business for special report that examines the connection between joblessness and violence in Chicago neighborhoods.
A Chicago Tribune article profiling the divergent styles and backgrounds of Chance the Rapper and Chief Keef cites figures from an early 2017 report by the UIC Great Cities Institute on youth unemployment in Chicago and Cook County.