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.City Cast Chicago asks UIC Urban Planning & Policy prof. & TIF expert Rachel Nicole Weber how TIFs work, has Chicago over-relied on them, and can Mayor Johnson’s plan produce more equitable investments? LISTEN: chicago.citycast.fm/podcasts/why-i…

Join us next Tuesday for a discussion of women and planning and celebrate UIC Urban Planning & Policy 50th anniversary. Register here wlrc.uic.edu/events/50-year…


In Crain's Chicago Business article, UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (she) discusses the CTA, needed policy interventions and the upcoming DNC convention chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-c…

#Transportation expert and UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (she) addresses the CTA's ridership trends and need for adequate funding chicagobusiness.com/politics/these…

Shared cost programs benefit some communities more than others, UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (she) tells WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2024/04/18/who…


.Kate Lowe (she), UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof., tells Block Club Chicago that the proposed bill to consolidate the transit agencies is promising more than what it can actually deliver blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/30/sta…

“Ridership in Chicago has not recovered the way it has in, for example, Washington, D.C., and a big factor in that is that our service levels aren’t up to what they were pre-pandemic,” said Kate Lowe (she), UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. wbez.org/stories/cta-ri…

Two groups of graduate students from UIC Urban Planning & Policy were tasked with developing a plan for a local community and providing recommendations oakpark.com/2024/05/20/rf-…


Co-Authors UIC Urban Planning & Policy's @trnsprtstNebiyou with Wenfei Xu, Michael Smart, + others looks at the racial composition of automated speed tickets and police stops in Chicago - Black drivers stopped more often by police than issued tickets by automated cameras doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

In an interview w/ Bloomberg CityLab, UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (she) addresses the traffic and environmental drawbacks of DNC attendees using ride-hail services over public transit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“There really is no safety net underneath these workers as they move to the later stages of life," UIC Urban Planning & Policy prof. Nik Theodore tells Los Angeles Times latimes.com/world-nation/s… UIC CUPPA

A progressive income tax could make transit more equitable, @uic_upp assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (she) tells Crain's Chicago Business chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-r…

Labor leaders and lawmakers must address underfunding and keep buses and trains running on time, UIC Urban Planning & Policy prof. Kate Lowe Kate Lowe (she) writes in Chicago Sun-Times op-ed chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/20… UIC CUPPA

.Nik Theodore, UIC Urban Planning & Policy prof. and director of UIC CUPPA's Center for Urban Economic Development, tells The New York Times that removals of construction workers will have a profound impact on the construction industry & everybody involved nytimes.com/2025/03/09/bus…


Rachel Havrelock and her colleagues University of Illinois Chicago's The Freshwater Lab have proposed building a second pipeline carrying treated wastewater for industrial uses that would save drinking water for drinking wbur.org/hereandnow/202… via Here & Now @npr WBUR UIC Liberal Arts and Sciences

.UIC CUPPA-based transportation experts P.S. Sriraj of the Urban Transportation Center and UIC Urban Planning & Policy assoc. prof. Kate Lowe (Kate Lowe (she)) weigh in on the situation as Chicago region public transit awaits financial lifelines