Documenters can expect mock documenting assignments, short writing exercises, and community building activities so make sure ...

How to take audio for Chicago Documenters will equip Documenters to record audio at public meetings. At the completion of the ...

This workshop will prepare you to document detention hearings. Chicago Documenters is partnering with Illinois Network for ...

City Bureau teamed up with ranked choice voting proponents for a night of pizza and discussion over how Illinois could alter its voting method. By Abena Bediako ...

From makeshift studios on the South Side to the bright lights of Downtown runways, young entrepreneurs are redefining fashion ...

The Budget Committee later approved the budget's spending plan by a 21 to 13 vote, sending the revised $16.6 billion plan to City Council and increasing the possibility of passing a budget by ...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed Chicago in 2025, here is how the city's alders responded, with quotes, ...

The sun has set, and the gym pulses with energy at Midnight Basketball in Austin. Along parallel walls, bold letters spell out BUILD, with the words “Hope, Lives, Futures” painted just beneath — more ...

Good mentors and role models are key to growing up, and in Hyde Park, some neighbors are worried there aren’t enough to go around. City Bureau Civic Reporting fellows spoke with people representing ...

In this context, a rapid response system is made up of community members and organizations working together to quickly confirm when federal agents are in an area and warn neighbors who may be at risk ...

Jahiem Jones moves through Brave Space Alliance like he belongs there — because he does. The 22-year-old knows every corner of the Hyde Park building: from the common area where participant artwork ...

Last fall, City Bureau kicked off a partnership with Cook County to design and implement the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program, a groundbreaking new initiative that leverages community ...