Before City Bureau, Jody spent nearly a decade at Heartland Alliance, one of Chicago’s prominent social justice organizations ...

The ICC is made up of five commissioners responsible for regulating public utilities (as well as other industries) under the ...

ICE at the airport. As of Monday, ICE agents have been deployed to over 14 airports across the country, including 75 agents ...

From city council to city colleges, commission on landmarks to the metropolitan water reclamation board documenters spend hours inside the rooms where decisions take shape. This event brings us ...

From neighborhood issues to public meetings, people are constantly trying to make sense of what’s happening around them. In this workshop, we’ll share what we heard from Chicagoans during a recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab in Bronzeville, and co-published by the Chicago Reader. For the last century, housing cooperatives have provided residents of major ...

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 ...

Para la versión en español de este artículo, haga click aquí. View and print the tri-fold guide here. Welcome to Chicago, where you have the right to work in a safe environment and get paid. Every ...

This story was reported and published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that ...