Tell us where we should distribute our Chicago Housing Pocket Guide: We printed 1,000 pocket-sized copies, and we need help deciding where to pass them out! Do you frequent a local library, coffee ...
This summer, a City Bureau staff member’s gas was wrongfully shut off. When he struggled to get help from Peoples Gas, he ...
Catch up on the basics of disaster preparedness and response, including acronyms and agencies to know, how to pack an emergency kit, and what to expect in the days, weeks, and months after an extreme ...
Winter 2024: As tens of thousands of asylum seekers arrive in Chicago, how are they finding work — and how much exploitation do they risk facing? Led by City Bureau senior reporter Sarah Conway, four ...
Both the Thornton and McCook reservoirs are critical parts of MWRD’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, known as TARP or “The Deep Tunnel.” It is a system of deep, large-diameter tunnels and massive ...
Editor’s note: This story discusses crisis mental healthcare and mentions violent crime. Chicago Documenters notes from Nikebia Brown-Joseph, Katie Busch, Fabienne Elie, Ava Grubb, Holland Harmon, ...
Rakya Graham, 23, is a painter and poet studying art at Harold Washington College in the Loop. Still, her only paying job — a server at The Cheesecake Factory — has nothing to do with her artistic ...
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 ...
NOTE: “Perfect Storm” is a series produced by City Bureau in partnership with Documenters Network sites focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities. It looks at how ...
Years pass, budgets are approved, but people are still confused. In the weeks after Chicago finalized its $16.8 billion budget, City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellows spoke to South and West siders about ...
Cardboard boxes of food stacked across the kitchen might appear scattered to outsiders, but make sense to staff working in a building on East 71st Street, in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. The ...
This week City Bureau and the Documenters Network won the Stronger Democracy Award, which will deliver $10 million to expand our participatory, civic media network across the country. It’s a major ...
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