City Bureau interviewed former Chicago Public School students, parents and teachers to see what priorities are shaping the ...

Come for an ice cream cone, coloring, & conversation—while learning about the School Board Elections—Free ice cream for the first 75 guests! City Bureau’s newly published coloring book—“Your Voice Mat ...

“Perfect Storm” is a series focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities, produced by City Bureau in partnership with local organizations in the Documenters Network. It ...

An easement is the legal right to use another person or entity’s property for a specific use. A railroad-owned easement means that a rail company has the legal right-of-way to lay tracks and have ...

This is an introductory guide to navigating Chicago’s resources for homelessness and housing insecurity. It includes where to go to find shelter, how to get help if you’re being threatened with ...

“Perfect Storm” is a series focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities, produced by City Bureau in partnership with local organizations in the Documenters Network. It ...

Approved in 1986 and amended over the years, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO) is meant to “protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens” and “to ...

The City of Chicago is selling debt residents and visitors owe for municipal fines and fees to a private debt collector as a way to help cover its 2026 budget gap. While owing money for traffic ...

Money that individual residents or employees owe directly to a municipality. Such debt can include vehicular debt (unpaid speeding, red-light camera or parking tickets), utility bills (water, ...

Chicago is tapping Bank of America to carry out its unprecedented sale of city-owned debt, a city spokesperson said. The deal with the San Francisco-based bank is one step forward in the city’s plan ...

Passed in the summer of 2021, the ordinance established structures for both citywide and hyperlocal input on Chicago’s public safety infrastructure via the seven-member appointed Community Commission ...

Editor’s note: This story discusses crisis mental healthcare and mentions violent crime. Chicago Documenters notes from Nikebia Brown-Joseph, Katie Busch, Fabienne Elie, Ava Grubb, Holland Harmon, ...