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Jobs Wanted - Not Hiring
Employment Prospects Limited for Released Former Prisoners
Hurry Up and Wait: The High Cost of Commuting in Chicago
Income Diversity in Chicago Neighborhoods

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MCIC research sheds light on specific topics and issues of interest. Analysis of MCIC data has produced reports on topics as diverse as charitable giving and volunteering, the effects of crime on neighborhood perceptions, the Digital Divide, and childcare utilization patterns.

MCIC research papers and seminars raise public awareness of issues in the Chicago metropolitan area, inform industry stakeholders and public officials, and raise the level of public policy debate by fostering better-informed discussions.

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• More or Less: Population Shifts in the Chicago Region
• Immigration, Gentrification and Chicago Race/Ethnic Relations in the New Global Era
• Low-Income Workers in Chicago Failed to Claim $127 Million in Tax Refunds in 2002
• Prepare Locally For Living Globally
• What Do We Do With the Hotel Tax Now that We Don‘t Need Any More Stadiums?

• More than a Pastime: Informal Arts Improve Communities and Increase Formal Arts Participation
• Arts Participation in the Metropolitan Chicago Region Growing: Audiences in a Region of Cultural Over-Achievers
• The Role of Neighborhood Arts Organizations in Building Community Capacity
• The Audience for the Arts in Chicago
• Survey of Chicago's Cultural Landscape
• Visitor Magnets: Attraction of Out-Of-Town Visitors by Museums, Recreation Areas, and Cultural Institutions.
• Members, Motives, and Fees: Who Joins Cultural Organizations, and Why?
• The Prospects are Favorable: Paths to Membership Growth for Cultural Organizations
• What is Cultural Vitality, How is it Measured?

• Jobs Wanted - Not Hiring
  Employment Prospects Limited for Released Former Prisoners
• Hurry Up and Wait: The High Cost of Commuting in Chicago
• Income Diversity in Chicago Neighborhoods
• American Dream or Financial Nightmare?
• The Naturalization Trail: Mexican Nationality and US Citizenship
• Emerging Markets and Financial Services in the Latino Community: Problems and Strategies
• MCIC Releases New Chain Reaction Retail Scores By Chicago Community Area
• Chain Reaction: Income, Race, and Access To Chicago's Major Player Grocers
• LISC Chicago: Measuring Community Development
• Rising Home Prices in Chicago: "Nest Egg" or Pushed out of the Nest?
• The Relationship between State Cigarette Taxes and Smoking-Related Deaths
• Driver's License Debate Reflects Complexities of Immigration Policy
• Maps and Methodology for Developing Undocumented Mexican Population Estimates
• More Jobs, Fewer Jobs: The Disparate Impact of Growth and Recession
• Think Globally, Act Locally
• MCIC Releases Chicago MSA Map of IRS Accepting Agents for ITINS
• Housing Burden an Issue
  No Matter Where You Live in the Region
• Matricula Cards, New Market Opportunities and Changing Immigration Law
• Race and Place Matter for Major Chicago Area Grocers
• Finding the Intersection Between Compliance and New Markets
• Edge Cities or Edge Suburbs?

• Who Gets Ahead? Work Profiles of Former Welfare Recipients in Illinois
• Chicago Communities and Prisoner Reentry
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) at Schools in the Metropolitan Chicago Region: Are Children Being Left Behind?
• The Two Worlds of Welfare Reform in Illinois
• Chicago Department of Public Health Community Health Profiles
• Putting a Face on the Uninsured
• We Need More Day Care Centers
• Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold, Most Like It Here

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