A Crain’s Chicago Business article on the status of Chicago’s Invest South/West economic development initiative includes perspective from Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, who addresses concerns over developments that rely on public…
A HuffPost article about the challenges facing the Fed in combating inflation, quotes Christelle Khalaf, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC.
PA Times, the news outlet of the American Society for Public Administration, published an essay by Yonghong Wu, UIC professor of public administration and Government Finance Research Center faculty advisory panel member, who writes…
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s coverage of the Foxconn community town hall and panel discussion in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public…
A ProPublica report on Ken Griffin’s investment to defeat an Illinois initiative to set graduated tax includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor and past interim dean in the College of Urban Planning…
An online investigative story from WDRB-TV in Louisville about a large proposed TIF district in the city’s West End area includes comments from David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor and past interim dean in the…
Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a ProPublica-Sun Herald story examining how Mississippi legislators are spending money from an economic development program backed by funds from BP to compensate the state…
In a co-authored New York Daily News op-ed, Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy and a faculty fellow with the Great Cities Institute, writes about New York City’s proposed Penn Station redevelopment and the…
A New York Times article on President Biden’s recent comments on policing and crime cites an earlier report from the Government Finance Research Center that looked at local governments’ use of American Rescue Plan funds and other…
The American Prospect interviewed Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center, and Philip Rocco, a political scientist at Marquette University, about their research on American Rescue Plan fund expenditures by local governments.