Brookings: Topics - Chicago

A Chicago-Area Retrofit Strategy: Coordinating Energy Efficiency Region-Wide

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A regional nonprofit plans on using ARRA funds to boost its current retrofit and weatherization activities in the short-term while promoting greater regional cooperation and expanded services in the long-term.

Chicago’s Multi-Family Energy Retrofit Program: Expanding Retrofits With Private Financing

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The city of Chicago is using ARRA funds to introduce a new program for retrofit delivery that relies on private sector financing and energy service companies to target property owners of lower-income multi-family homes.

Chicago’s Southern Suburbs Focus on ARRA: Coordinating Inter-Suburban Recovery

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A group of 40 struggling Chicago-area suburbs are utilizing a pre-existing multi-jurisdictional neighborhood stabilization strategy as a framework for linking multiple ARRA funding flows to support community development, energy efficiency and infrastructure upgrades.

Metro Areas Need to Use Power of Their Votes

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bruce Katz and his colleague MarySue Barrett argue that presidential candidates can score big with metropolitan voters in places such as Phoenix, New York, Santa Fe and Chicago if they rethink the compact between metro areas and the federal government.

Cashing in on the BP Beltway

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Commercial interests and smart investors are turning their eyes toward some of our nation's most prominent roadways. Private companies, syndicates, and their advisors are putting up billions of dollars banking on steady, ever increasing toll revenues

Racial Division and Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Cities

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In this presentation, Bruce Katz provides an overview of current patterns of racial and ethnic separation in the United States, using the Chicago, Washington DC, and New Orleans metros as case studies.

New Realities for Chicagoland

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Presentation by Bruce Katz at the Chicago Metropolitan Mayors Caucus on September 9, 2005.

In this presentation at the Chicago Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Bruce Katz discussed the new realities facing the Chicago region, their consequences, and what policies should the region focus on to address the new realities.

The City/Region of the Future

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

In this presentation to the British-American Project's 2004 Conference in Chicago, Bruce Katz discusses demographic and economic trends occurring in Chicago, the U.S., and the U.K.

Access to Social Services: The Changing Urban Geography of Poverty and Service Provision

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

This paper analyzes the shifting geography of concentrated poverty and its impact on the proximity of social services.

Financial Education and Asset Building Programs for Welfare Recipients and Low Income Workers: The Illinois Experience

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

An examination of Illinois? efforts to boost the skills needed to make sound financial decisions for people transitioning off of welfare.

The Calculus of Coalitions: Cities and States and the Metropolitan Agenda

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

This paper argues that in response to shifting population distributions within states, cities need to build new coalitions to effectively achieve their legislative goals within state legislatures.

Chicago in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000

Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Chicago in Focus: This Living Cities databook compiles key city information from Census 2000 in a "one-stop" guide for local leaders.

Shaping the American City: New Approaches to Development Regulation

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Event Information:

January 17, 2003 at 12:00 AM

On January 16-17, 2003, The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and the American Planning Association sponsored "Shaping the American City: New Approaches to Development Regulation." Nearly 100 participants heard panelists discuss the history of zoning, debate alternatives to contemporary zoning practice, and report on reform efforts being undertaken in Chicago, Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee, and Nashville.

Do Federal Funds Better Support Cities Or Suburbs? A Spatial Analysis of Federal Spending In The Chicago Metropolis

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT

This paper examines the spatial distribution of federal spending and the effects of that spending on growth and development in the Chicago metropolitan area

Rewarding Work: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Chicago

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT

A report examining the impacts of the earned income tax credit on metropolitan areas

Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform?

Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform

The Transformation of Chicago's Public Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT

The Transformation of Chicago's Public Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

The View From the Metropolis

Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Review article by Elmer Johnson (Fall 1998)

Chicago Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Members of the U.S. Congress

Fri, 01 May 1998 00:00:00 GMT

Using the Chicago metropolitan area as an example, this report demonstrates how social and economic polarization within metropolitan areas hurts not only already ailing central cities, but also, low tax-base older, inner suburbs and developing suburb