Lecture Series
Real Time Chicago (RTC)
Real Time Chicago (RTC) is Great Cities Institute’s hallmark seminar series, covering the latest policy dialogues in the Chicago Metropolitan Region. Through RTC and in its role as convener, Great Cities Institute brings the important and pressing conversations to the UIC community so we can be informed and weigh in. The RTC lineup is new every semester and brings together a variety of contributors, all organized around a semester-long central policy theme.
Real Time Chicago lecture media can be found on our Youtube and Facebook pages.
INNOVATE Chicago
INNOVATE Chicago is GCI’s seminar series aligned with our Employment and Economic Development research cluster. Focusing on the latest and most creative strategies for economic development throughout the region, GCI facilitates conversations among researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers at the forefront of making Chicago a better place to live, do business, and live a quality life. INNOVATE debuted in Fall 2013.
INNOVATE Chicago lecture media can be found on our Youtube and Facebook pages.
Poverty to Prosperity
Poverty to Prosperity is GCI’s newest seminar series focused on critical and overdue conversations to identify real solutions to one of our nation’s age-old problems: poverty. The Poverty to Prosperity series provides a forum for dialogue and policy discussion between some of the nation’s premier experts on poverty and the Chicago community. Now 50 years after President Johnson’s declared “War On Poverty,” persistent problems in inequality and stratification of access to resources and opportunities continue to disproportionately affect certain neighborhoods and communities, inhibiting their chances to break the cycle of poverty. GCI provides the space for dialogue on some of our generation’s most pressing issues.
Poverty to Prosperity lecture media can be found on our Youtube and Facebook pages.