President Donald Trump, acting against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wishes, ordered National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles ...

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights hotline is available to report suspected ICE activity, and get ...

Chicago Documenters are coming together for Documenters on Duty–a weeklong fundraising campaign to support the people-powered ...

Join us for our next Public Newsroom on “What’s in our water” where you will explore an interactive map produced by WBEZ, ...

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 ...

For Alliance of the Southeast (ASE) executive director Amalia NietoGomez, the transition time between learning about Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) and creating one was fast. The Partnership for ...

Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff. Andre Wallace* has wanted to move for months. The West ...

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 fall I curated a series of Public Newsrooms that we called, “Community Care in the 2020 Election: We Gon Be Alright,” which began by talking about building safe space. On Nov. 21 at Experimental ...

On a sunny Monday morning in early June, early-2000s music drowns out the bustling traffic on South King Drive as a young woman dances in the bike lane. She waves a sign that reads “Free Food” on one ...

As our young media start-up matures, remembering why we do this work is as important as building models for the future of local media. That’s why City Bureau’s first Impact Report begins with a ...