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

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

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

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

Join City Bureau for this three-session workshop series that transforms everyday residents, netizens, and Documenters into critically media-literate journalists who can identify reliable sources, ...

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 ...

Should Illinois residents who take in more income pay a higher tax rate? At its core, that was the matter at the top of every Illinois voter’s ballot this November. With huge amounts of resources ...

Temp jobs are on the rise. Employers have increasingly turned to temp workers because of the flexibility a temporary workforce provides, meaning companies can ramp up or scale down their workforce as ...

The city needs more spaces for young people to connect and support each other. The best ones are spearheaded by the young people they’re meant to serve, organizers say. Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch ...

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, ...

Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Boystown on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders mix ...

This story was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab in Bronzeville, and co-published by the Chicago Reader. When Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled We Will Chicago two years ago, the initiative ...