This summer, a City Bureau staff member’s gas was wrongfully shut off. When he struggled to get help from Peoples Gas, he ...

Both the Thornton and McCook reservoirs are critical parts of MWRD’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, known as TARP or “The Deep ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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This story was produced by City Bureau and co-published by the Chicago Reader. The area surrounding the 43rd Street Green Line stop will look drastically different in the next couple of years and two ...

Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Boystown on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders mix ...