Both the Thornton and McCook reservoirs are critical parts of MWRD’s Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, known as TARP or “The Deep ...

Resources for affordable housing, eviction, homeless shelters, and daily needs for people facing housing insecurity in Chicago.

Both schools formally closed the following month. (ASPIRA also shut down a Northwest Side middle school in 2025 because of ...

As the Trump administration seeks to cut funding for housing-first models of homelessness prevention, thousands could be at ...

Available via 911 throughout Chicago, CARE sends behavioral health professionals to help people experiencing mental health crises, providing resources to address their unmet health and social needs.

Public courtrooms are one of the places where government power is most visible—and where the public is most absent. Court proceedings are technically open to the public, but you likely won’t see ...

NOTE: “Perfect Storm” is a series produced by City Bureau in partnership with Documenters Network sites focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities. It looks at how ...

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 ...

What happens when public information stops feeling public? For many people, local government can feel distant, even alienating. Important decisions get buried in dense technical documents. Public ...

The girls are fighting (again)... New conflicts have split a Northwest Side Police Council that previously moved to oust one of its members. Last week, 14th District council members Ashley Vargas and ...