Despite the daunting financial and logistical challenges they face, young mothers like Griffin, McCray, Boyd and Tennyson are ...

In this 2 hour, interactive follow-up to Orientation, Documenters will dig into the makeup of Chicago government. We will talk assignment expectations for note taking/ live-tweeting. Documenters can ...

Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff. Andre Wallace* has wanted to move for months. The West ...

Marion Turner moved to Wicker Park in the 1950s when vacant buildings and crime were common and the city’s disinvestment in the neighborhood was painfully apparent. In the 70s, Turner started looking ...

Explore data on how every precinct in Illinois voted on the U.S. President, U.S. Senate and the Illinois tax amendment. Support City Bureau’s community-centered reporting by becoming a City Bureau ...

A Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) is a legally binding contract between a community and a developer that includes commitments the developer will make to the neighborhood, in exchange for the ...

The ideas here were developed in conversation with Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media, Courtney Hurtt of WDET, Eve Pearlman and Adriana Garcia of Spaceship Media, Mike Rispoli of the News Voices Project ...

María Teresa Sánchez has no time to think. She travels from Pilsen to Bolingbrook and back, nearly 30 miles each way, five days a week, to work in a factory where she makes $12 an hour. She spends ...

It wasn't until Michelle Kennedy left Bronzeville for City Planning graduate school in the 1990s that she learned her Chicago neighborhood’s name. After observing a classmate's presentation on the ...

Chicago just launched one of the largest guaranteed-income programs in the U.S. But how long have Americans been pushing for government-backed income as a solution to entrenched poverty and inequality ...

Five recently arrived migrants say criminal trespassing enforcement at a Southwest Side Home Depot has escalated to alleged physical assaults by security personnel, including multiple off-duty Chicago ...

This fall I curated a series of Public Newsrooms that we called, “Community Care in the 2020 Election: We Gon Be Alright,” which began by talking about building safe space. On Nov. 21 at Experimental ...