A City That Works
Conor Durkin, Nik Hunder, Zak Yudhishthu, Richard Day, Dan Gent - Chi2100 Urbanism, Evan Mast, Alex MonteroPolicy analysis and ideas on how to make Chicago work better.
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Community Violence Intervention is good
Governor Pritzker with leaders from the Institute for Non-Violence Chicago, Westside Health Authority, and Together Chicago. Source: Governor’s Office.
We’ve spent the last few months looking at the efficacy of a range of violence re...
Chicago is clearing more cases by giving up more often
Last month, the Mayor’s Office took a victory lap to tout the substantial improvements Chicago has made in public safety over the last few years. That progress matters, and it makes sense that the Mayor would like a share of the credit. It’...
View from the wheel: CTA needs a better approach to Bus Control
CTA Bus Operator. Source: RTA
We strongly believe that if Chicago is to get better at delivering public services, we’re going to need to get better at listening to front-line public servants. So we’re very happy to run today’s guest piece,...
The case for opting into the federal education tax credit
Last year, one of the many things created by the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ was the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, a nonrefundable tax credit for contributors to K-12 scholarship granting organizations (SGOs). While anyone can...
In the 1990s, New York brought crime to record lows. Why couldn’t Chicago do the same?
In the early 1990s, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles had roughly the same homicide rates. Since then we’ve seen a stark divergence. Today, there are roughly 4 times as many murders per capita in Chicago than New York, and three times as ma...
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Nik Hunder is an environmental policy analyst, researcher, and public transit advocate from Chicago
Writing about urban economics and housing, mostly in the Twin Cities and Chicago.
Mostly transit, housing and state capacity. Always Chicago. Opinions here are my own, and don’t reflect the views of employers, past, present or future.
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Urban economist at Notre Dame
Alex Montero is the chairperson of Strong Towns Chicago, an all volunteer advocacy group focused on housing, street safety, and transit.
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