Financing Local Public Services: Pending Issues

Dixon, Illinois: A Northern Illinois Community Aggressively Preparing for a Rapidly Changing Economic and Cultural Environment

Managing Demographic Change: Working with Growth in Elderly Populations

Demographic trends suggest continued population declines and increases in the elderly population of small rural communities during the next decade and beyond. These changes could have significant implications for communities ...

The economic recovery in Illinois following the Great Recession was relatively sluggish. Per capita expenditures by municipalities with a population of 25,000 or larger increased by only about 1% annually between 2012 ...

The City of Woodstock has a vision for an age-friendly future: Age-friendly Woodstock, Illinois is widely recognized as a warm, welcoming vibrant community offering lifelong opportunity and enrichment for youth and adults ...

The City of Sycamore Comprehensive Plan Update 2020 was completed in conjunction with the Economic Development Playbook. (https://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/24304) Coordinating preparation of these two documents ...

This report was prepared in conjunction with the City of Sycamore 2021 Comprehensive Plan Update: https://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/24303 Information gathered during the comprehensive planning process along with input ...

In 2020-21 the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) contracted with Northern Illinois University (NIU) Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) to do an in-depth study of the economic impacts of the Illinois Community ...