RTA officials implored the Illinois General Assembly to take action and allocate the necessary funds to stave off the crisis ...

Join City Bureau and our Winter 2025 Fellows for a specially curated Social Hour offering insights to young adults who are looking for help jump-starting their career! Come build community with young ...

The Green Social Housing ordinance aims to meet the need for affordable housing in Chicago without relying on federal funding ...

Nita Tennyson felt compelled to act after seeing her people in her community struggle to find basic resources and living supplies early in the COVID-19 pandemic and during widespread looting in 2020.

José Muñoz doesn’t have many photos of his childhood — almost all of them were lost between evictions and living in homelessness during his youth. His mother, an immigrant, worked two jobs to provide ...

On a Monday evening in March, teenagers and their parents attended an open house at the Arts + Public Life Arts Block in Washington Park. Julia Hinojosa, the associate director of education programs, ...

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, transgender Americans have repeatedly been in the crosshairs of his second administration. One of the first acts was an executive order limiting ...

Illinoisans ages 42 to 64 who are in the country without legal status could lose health care coverage this summer. Gov. JB Pritzker’s FY26 budget proposal in February aims to end the Health Benefits ...

We are excited to welcome Rachel Birkahn Rommelfanger to the team as City Bureau’s new Director of Chicago Documenters! Rachel is a Chicagoland native, second-generation pastor and policy wonk. They ...

The Chicago Housing Authority is on the hunt for a new CEO. The agency has formed a search committee to replace Tracey Scott, who left the housing agency in 2024 amid growing criticism about the ...