Serving UIC's Great Cities Commitment: Solutions for Today's Urban Challenges
This report gives an overview of what worker cooperatives are, reviews the Illinois Co-operative Act 805 ILCS 310/1, and makes recommendations for amending the Co-operative Act.
Chicago has long been a focus of national attention on urban education policy, and its latest plan to remake public education is no exception.
The electricity generation industry produces a substantial proportion of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in the United States and globally.
Anthony Orum Professor, Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Abstract United States. As of the year, 2002, more than 32 million new residents, or approximately 11 per cent of the total population, had been added in this manner to the population of the United States (U.S. Census, February […]
This brief provides advice for state and local governments as they define their One-Stop Employment Centers and broader workforce development systems.
The homeless problem now enjoys a settled if marginal place in U.S. domestic policy.
Modern university/community relationships are sometimes marked by division and hostility.
In recent years some well-known economists and political commentators have characterized cities as economically and politically irrelevant.
Analysis of economic integration should evaluate the dominant form of development which emphasizes growth through exports, high capital mobility, privatization, and governmental deregulation.
U.S. government officials, business leaders and many economists tout "free trade" agreements as U.S. employment and wage boosters.