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

The impact of Chicago’s near-record rainfall this summer goes beyond flooded basements. Chicago experienced a total of 15.38 inches of rain, making it the wettest meteorological summer since 2018.

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 ...

Big facilities that house servers, storage, networking equipment and supporting infrastructure that powers websites and other digital services people use every day. These centers produce an immense ...

Bank of America has dropped out of Chicago’s unprecedented plan to sell city-owned debt. The San Francisco-based bank’s exit is another setback in the city’s plan to sell at least $1 billion of ...

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, ...

Chicago Documenters notes from Layla Brown-Clark, Katie Busch, Madeleine Davison, Katrina Herring and Brandi Scarber were used to help report this story. Find more public meeting coverage at ...