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December 2022
Celebrating our Partners & Marking 10 Years of Leadership
We are hosting our special event titled “Celebrating our Partners & Marking 10 Years of Leadership.” Speakers included Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Interim Chancellor Javier Reyes, Juan González of Democracy Now, Teresa Córdova, and a panel on democracy led by Kathleen Yang-Clayton. The panel included four brilliant professionals in the public and advocacy fields and was moderated by Kathleen Yang-Clayton, one of our Senior Research Fellows at Great Cities Institute.
Find out more »March 2023
Helen Shiller Book Talk and Archive Launch
Join us and Dis/Placements Project for a book talk and celebration of Former 46th Ward Alderperson Helen Schiller! We look forward to seeing you at the event on March 14, 2023 from 5-6:30 pm, Student Center East, Room 302, at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Find out more »Chicago’s 2023 Mayoral Race: Reclaiming Harold Washington’s Multiracial Coalition
In 1983, Harold Washington forged a multiracial, progressive coalition that propelled him to victory as Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington’s triumph marked a turning point in U.S. urban politics, one cut short by his tragic death in 1987. Forty years after his stunning victory, a new Chicago mayoral contest raises the question: what can we learn from the Washington era?
Find out more »City / Cité Chicago x Paris: Re/Inventing City Planning to Address Contemporary Issues
Please join Great Cities Institute for an event titled Chicago and Paris on the importance of Mobility and Logistics. The event will be moderated by Great Cities Institute Director Teresa Córdova and include the following guests: Jeffrey Sriver, Marion Albertelli, Thorsten Johann, Dr. Matthieu Schorung, Dr. Amanda Stathopoulos, and José Acosta-Córdova.
Find out more »April 2023
Equicity: On the Origins, Development and Future Prospects of the Urban Commonwealth
Please join Great Cities Institute for a lecture with Simon Park on Tuesday April 11, 2023 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. In this lecture, Parker explores the struggle for housing and basic income in the Global South, and argues that the re-discovery and re-assertion of the urban commonwealth as a space and vehicle for social justice is the best guarantee our highly urbanized world has to meet the multiple challenges of the climate catastrophe, structural inequality, racism, misogyny and forced migration and displacement in order to generate more equitable, tolerant and sustainable societies.
Find out more »September 2023
Launching the Latino Research Initiative at Great Cities Institute
Great Cities Institute is launching the Latino Research Initiative (LRI) and would like to invite all who are interested to come to join us on September 12 to hear about some of the work of the initiative and to network among yourselves. Juan González, Senior Fellow at GCI and the co-host of Democracy Now, is our keynote speaker and will discuss Chicagoland Latinos in the larger context of national and international issues.
Find out more »October 2023
At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing
This 2-day summit will gather speakers from around the world, local stakeholders and activists, as well as city officials who have radically rethought established norms of living, models of homeownership, and the formal, programmatic, material, and legal parameters of housing.
Find out more »November 2023
Talk: “City of Dignity: Catholic Social Justice Activism in Postwar Los Angeles”
This talk charts the development of distinctly Catholic social justice activism in Los Angeles in the decades after WWII until the 1990s. This was at a time of tumultuous change in both the city and the Church, as Los Angeles witnessed the uprisings of 1965 and 1992, welcomed millions of new immigrants from Central America and Asia, and grappled with the effects of globalization. In this ever-shifting context, Catholics committed to the Church’s social teaching and the reforms of Vatican II sought to adapt their faith to address a wide range of urban issues, with a view toward making Los Angeles a “city of dignity.”
Find out more »Latino Environmental Justice Leadership Along Industrial Waterways
The Freshwater Lab and the Great Cities Institute are co-hosting the Latino Environmental Justice Leadership Along Industrial Waterways event, featuring several prominent environmental justice leaders from Chicago and Joliet as event speakers. We would like to invite all who are interested to join us on November 7 to hear more from these speakers about environmental justice issues/actions in Chicago and the Greater Chicagoland Area.
Find out more »Book Talk with Helen Shiller, the Author of “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win”
Helen Shiller will be coming to the Great Cities Institute to talk about her new autobiography book, “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win.”
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