Since 2000, the rise in suburban poverty rates far outpaces the increase in urban poverty rates. An article in The New York Times reports suburban poverty rates are up 53 percent while urban rates have only increased by 26 percent. More than half of the metropolitan poor now live in…

That's the headline of a letter than ran in today's Chicago Tribune from a 17 year-old Lake Bluff resident.  Here are excerpts:

"I'm 17 and I am a senior in high school.  When the subject of teen drinking comes to mind, I am here to defend the underage drinkers.

"In…

Business Week teams with Zillow.com to confirm what Joe Cortright concluded in "Driven to the Brink" several months ago for CEOs for Cities.  "Annual price changes in most of the largest metro areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and…

Today's New York Times points to further evidence of the waning appeal of exurban living in the age of $4 per gallon gas in Rethinking the Country Life as Energy Costs Rise.

CEOs for Cities Senior Advisor Joe Cortright was quoted in the piece and the CEOs for Cities'…