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Understanding Low-Income Household Displacement in Chicago
Compared to peers like Los Angeles and New York, Chicago is a uniquely affordable city.
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Bo McMillan
5
14 thoughts on Chicago’s Midyear Budget Outlook
On July 30th, the mayor’s Office of Budget and Management (OBM) put out their first midyear budget review.
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Conor Durkin
7
What Does Better Growth look like?
Lessons from Austin, Texas
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Noah Wright
13
The fallout from Springfield’s disastrous pension decision
We can’t go on like this
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Conor Durkin
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Richard Day
14
CPS’s many challenges, Part 1: Pensions and Debt
Other parts of Chicagoland government have great big fiscal challenges, too!
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Conor Durkin
4

July 2025

Chicago has a market for parking reform
The city’s new reforms will help build more units
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Zak Yudhishthu
10
Chicago needs a better process to promote police officers
The problems with CPD's promotion process
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Richard Day
2
A 2025 update on the State of Chicago Pensions
You guessed it: our greatest public finance challenge remains a great public finance challenge
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Conor Durkin
3
Fleeing from the police should be a felony
A serious crime with not-so-serious consequences
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Justin Erb
4
A request to the Common Sense Caucus: Support pro-growth housing policy
(it ought to be common sense, too)
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Conor Durkin
10
How to make social housing work in Chicago: key learnings
The third and final part of our series
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Bo McMillan
1
Taste of Chicago: Our favorite local writing
July 2025 edition
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Richard Day
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Conor Durkin
1
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