Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
Chicago filmmaker Ines Sommer has been working on a documentary, called Count Me In, on the participatory budgeting process in Chicago, a movement that has been coordinated by GCI's own Thea Crum and Maria Hadden of The Participatory Budgeting Project.
Crain's Chicago Business quotes Howard Wial, executive director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, on the reasons for the 2007 establishment of two-tier wage scales in the auto industry.
In a story on Chicago's latest budget, the Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Michael Pagano, GCI fellow and dean of the College of Urban Planning, and cites the annual City Fiscal Conditions report that he co-authors with the National League of Cities.
The Chicago Sun-Times quoted Steve Schlickman, executive director of the Urban Transportation Center, on the likelihood that the State of Illinois will support a capital program to improve Metra.
In a story on Chicago neighborhoods' recovery from the real estate downturn, DNA Info quotes Rebecca Hendrick, former GCI scholar, on likely reasons for the slow recovery and cites her 2010 report, "The Great Recession's Impact on the City of Chicago."
The Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, a research unit at the College of Urban Planning and Urban Affairs at UIC, just released with the Illinois Latino Family Commission part I and II of a series report titled "Making the Case for Change".
Crain's Chicago Business quotes Phil Ashton, former GCI scholar, on the city's plan to sell 322 vacant South Side lots to nearby homeowners and nonprofits who will maintain them and pay property taxes.
The Los Angeles Times quotes Nik Theodore, GCI fellow and professor of urban planning and policy, on the growing prevalence of a wide variety of temporary, freelance, and odd jobs.
The Daily Herald quoted Rachel Weber, associate professor of urban planning and policy, on the renewal of transit-oriented development of retail, housing and entertainment venues in Chicago suburbs along commuter train lines.
GCI's own Thea Crum will be speaking about PB Chicago's experiences in opening PB processes up to different types of public budgets on a panel called, "Democratizing New Pots of Money: Federal CDBG, TIF, Public Housing & Settlement Money."