New work requirements for SNAP kicked in Feb. 1, endangering benefits for nearly 400,000 Illinoisans. Safety net community ...

Documenting pretrial detention. Chicago Documenters is partnering with Illinois Network for PreTrial Justice (INPJ) to ...

When a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district has generated more money than the city has committed for approved projects. Each year, officials move some of that extra money — a.k.a. a “sweep” — to ...

This workshop will prepare you to document detention hearings. Chicago Documenters is partnering with Illinois Network for PreTrial Justice (INPJ) to document Cook County’s adherence to the 2023 ...

Join Chicago Documenters for a community-centered gathering where neighbors, civic doers, and the curious come together.

City Bureau’s digital equity IMPACT grant program digs deep into how Chicago organizations can help communities get the ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a federally funded program that helps low-income families buy ...

This story was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab in Bronzeville, and co-published by the Chicago Reader. For the last century, housing cooperatives have provided residents of major ...

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 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 ...