Keynote Presentation
New Realities for a New Region: Not Your Parents' Chicagoland
Bruce Katz - Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
Lead Papers
The Evolving Region: What's Changing and What's Not in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
James H. Lewis - Roosevelt University
Immigration, Gentrification, and Chicago Race/Ethnic Relations in the New Global Era
D. Garth Taylor - Metro Chicago Information Center
Syvia Puente - University of Notre Dame
Politics, Policy, and Population Change
Paul Kleppner - Northern Illinois University
Communities and Community Development in Chicago: Past, Present, and Future
Larry Bennett, Michael Bennett, John Koval - DePaul University
Poverty in Chicago: An Analysis of Recent Trends
Dan A. Lewis and Vandna Sinha - Northwestern University
Housing in the Chicago Region
Janet L. Smith - University of Illinois at Chicago
Change in Household-Family Typology in the Chicago Metro Area: A Neighborhood Perspective
Donald J. Bogue - University of Chicago
Changing School Enrollment Patterns of Latino and Asian Populations in Metropolitan Chicago
Genevieve Lopardo and William Peterman - Chicago State University
Major Changes and Trends in Chicago Hospitals
Kyusuk Chung - Governors State University
Ross Mullner - University of Illinois at Chicago
Defining Success: Community Technology and Communication Policies in the Chicago Region
Linda Salchenberger - Loyola University
