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For her work on "Washington Historic Commercial Square: Preliminary Application for National Regiser Listing," Marcia Klopf has been recognized as the Student Project Award Winner by the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association. Read more on APA's webpage or read the full text of Marcia's project>>

The Chicago-based planning firm of Camiros, Ltd. donated nearly 1,400 planning documents published from the 1970s through the 2000s to the Funk Library, which contains the City Planning and Landscape Architecture collection at the University of Illinois. Read more.. 

During ACSP's 2017 annual conference, Prof. Miraftab was given the Paul Davidoff Book Award for her book "Global Heartland", which focuses on the small west central Illinois community of Beardstown, where a local meat-processing plant recruited African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans who re-create the town in unexpected ways. Read more.

The Student Planning Organization/SPO takes a fall road trip to Detroit.  Fourteen graduate and undergraduate students spend two nights and an action-packed day visiting a variety of Detroit organizations and planning firms, as well as linking up with alumni. Read more.

Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Planning to replace Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning. Concentrations added. Minor also revised. Read More.