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Video still from "Octopus"

June 19, 2014

‘Nice Work if You Can Get It’ looks at new economy

Gallery 400 exhibition looks at life after 2008 financial crisis

Image from Dread Scott video "Money to Burn"

September 24, 2013

Portraits of life in the new economy

Gallery 400’s latest exhibit draws on community for “Standard of Living”

September 17, 2012

Cities Still Cutting Jobs and Infrastructure

For the sixth straight year, city revenues around the country dropped in 2011, as costs of health care, pensions and infrastructure rose, says a public administration and infrastructure expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

May 21, 2012

UIC to Lead MacArthur-Funded Study of Cities’ Fiscal Health

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a three-year, $950,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to lead a joint study of city governments’ responses to the Great Recession.