Andrea Clinton
July 30, 2022
Since 2019, CPD has made progress on specific consent decree mandates. However, there has not yet been intentional focus on the complementary cultural change that is needed to realize the spirit of reform. Building on our prior work to support ...
July 23, 2022
Reducing gun violence is a critical priority for the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the State of Illinois. Significant new funding is available to all three entities via the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), creating an opportunity to ...
June 23, 2022
In spring 2021, the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law, providing nearly $2 billion to the City of Chicago and $1 billion to Cook County in direct, flexible funding to combat the devastating effects of the ...
March 24, 2022
In August 2021, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the creation of the Community Safety Coordination Center (CSCC), a first-of-its-kind, multi-agency coordination center to advance a whole of government, community-driven approach to violence prevention and reduction for the City of Chicago.
The CSCC ...
November 24, 2021
With Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students back in the classroom five days a week this fall, schools across the city are once again abuzz after a year of mostly remote learning. While the pandemic continues to impact school communities and ...
September 24, 2021
As we head into the fall, we close a second consecutive summer with a dramatic rise in gun violence in Chicago. Gun violence is an issue of paramount importance to our collective well-being and to our region’s prosperity—it is a ...
August 24, 2021
Earlier this summer, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) released its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, after a first-of-its kind collaborative strategic planning process.
The MWRD is a special-purpose district responsible for treating wastewater and providing stormwater management for the ...
June 30, 2021
Since West Side United was founded in 2017, Civic Consulting Alliance has helped this innovative health equity collaborative incubate, launch, and execute initiatives to address the social determinants of health for the West Side’s 550,000 residents.
One key initiative in West Side United’s Economic Vitality ...
June 18, 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has had a devastating impact on Chicago’s Black and Latinx communities, where disparate financial and health outcomes were already the norm after decades of disinvestment and systemic racism. Recognizing these structural inequities, in October 2020, The Chicago ...
May 30, 2021
As local leaders and public health officials have called out since the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black and Latinx Chicagoans, due in part to longstanding racial inequities in healthcare quality and access.
Last spring, the City ...