Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Comments from and a study by Beth Gutelius, senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute at UIC, is cited in a Los Angeles Times story regarding the working conditions and high temperatures at a Rite Aid warehouse in Southern California.
A Chicago Sun-Times story on a PepsiCo program to create job pathways young people on Chicago’ South and West Sides cites findings from a 2019 UIC Great Cities Institute report on youth joblessness.
Cleveland.com talked to Thea Crum, associate director of the neighborhoods initiative at the UIC Great Cities Institute, about the institute’s role in PB Chicago, a partnership to guide citizen involvement in participatory budgeting in the city.
NBC 5 Chicago’s latest “Violence in Chicago” segment, which examines disinvestment in city neighborhoods, features findings from a 2017 UIC Great Cities Institute report on youth joblessness.
A New York Times article about a new California law that requires warehouses like Amazon to disclose quotas and work speed metrics to employees and government agencies includes comments from Beth Gutelius, senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute at UIC.
Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and fellow at the Great Cities Institute, is quoted in an online story from NBC News on the booming business of disaster recovery due to increasing weather and climate events.
In an online story from WBEZ, Jim Lewis, a senior research specialist with UIC’s Great Cities Institute, offers insight on the process and laws surrounding the remapping of Chicago’s aldermanic ward boundaries.
Beth Gutelius, research director for the Center for Urban Economic Development at UIC and senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute at UIC, addresses warehouse work surveillance in comments featured in a Los Angeles Times article.
Analysis from Matthew Wilson, senior research specialist with the Great Cities Institute, is featured in a Bisnow article on U.S. Census Bureau figures and trends in Chicago.
Beth Gutelius is a featured expert in an article from The American Prospect magazine that looks at the current state of staffing in the warehouse industry.