Past Events

The baby boom generation is retiring from every position in companies including ownership.  Small companies have no apparent successor or even a succession plan and are at risk of closing.  In Barcelona Spain, leaders in the business community, with government support have confronted this challenge with the creation of Reempresa.  This webinar serves as an introduction to this model. Reempresa is based in Barcelona and represents best international practices in the area of ownership succession challenges and in acquisitions. Since 2011, they have had more than 11,210 enterprises for sale, more than 20,000 potential buyers and more than 4,800 acquisitions, and saving more than 13,400 jobs. The Federation for a Manufacturing Renaissance believes that this is a model that should be taken to scale in the United States.

UIC Great Cities Institute Director Teresa Córdova will interview UIC Professor Emeritus and former Chicago Alderman Dick Simpson about his new book, "Chicago's Modern Mayors—From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot." To contextualize the book discussion, Córdova and Simpson will explore how the UIC University Library's special collections of mayors Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley are fundamental to understanding the history of Chicago politics.

In US cities, regions, and territories, low-income Latina/o populations often reside in communities sensitive to pollution and climate change events such as droughts, extreme heat, and wildfires. Public policy can often trigger these inequities by forcing people to live in precarious and underserved communities with limited access to resilient infrastructure, services, and opportunities. However, even though climate change disproportionately impacts and displaces Latino communities, there is sparse research within Latino Studies on how these experiences threaten their health, safety, and neighborhood well-being. The overarching research question of the Climate and Environmental Justice working group is: How do Latino communities experience, cope, and contest the disparate impacts of pollution and extreme climate change events? Please join us in this webinar to learn more about our projects.