Quote/Term of the Week Crisis Assistance Response & Engagement Program (CARE) / noun. Available via 911 throughout Chicago, ...

Developers behind a Southeast Side quantum computing campus have planned to build a data center on the northern part of the ...

Public courtrooms are one of the places where government power is most visible—and where the public is most absent. Court proceedings are technically open to the public, but you likely won’t see ...

Between COVID-era ARPA funding, federal cuts from the Trump administration and increased need in Chicago and Illinois, ...

What happens when public information stops feeling public? For many people, local government can feel distant, even alienating. Important decisions get buried in dense technical documents. Public ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Our Civic Reporting Fellowship reporting series, Decoding the City Budget, relied on extensive Documenters notes covering City Council budget hearings last fall. Find more public ...

This story was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab in Bronzeville, and co-published by the Chicago Reader. When Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled We Will Chicago two years ago, the initiative ...