A version of this story was first published in the July 2, 2025 issue of the Newswire, an email newsletter that is your ...

They came to Chicago for safety and community. But increased anti-trans attacks and policy from President Donald Trump’s ...

— Ald. Angela Clay (46th Ward) speaking against the snap curfew, urging her colleagues to hear young Chicagoan’s opinions on ...

City Scrapers is a community open source project designed to scrape, standardize and share information on local public governance meetings in a central database, in conjunction with City Bureau's ...

Ante el aumento vertiginoso de los precios de la vivienda en un barrio de Chicago en proceso de gentrificación, vivir en la ...

A free workshop series, the Public Newsroom aims to create an open space where anyone can gather to discuss and deconstruct local issues, share resources and knowledge, and meet new people. Each ...

A year after Lightfoot took office, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, exacerbating housing insecurity. Through the American Rescue Plan Act, Chicago received $1.9 billion to kickstart an economic comeback, ...

The Chicago Rideshare Living Wage and Safety Ordinance, or the “The FairShare Ordinance,” aimed to improve conditions for ...

In July 2017, a new court opened on Chicago’s West Side that aimed to restore defendants to the community via peace circles rather than punishing them within the criminal justice system. City Bureau ...

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 ...

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 ...