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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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 ...

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 ...

Chicago Documenters notes from Layla Brown-Clark, Katie Busch, Madeleine Davison, Katrina Herring and Brandi Scarber were used to help report this story. Find more public meeting coverage at ...

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 ...