Beyond summer jobs, community organizations across Chicago are building year-round, comprehensive youth development.

For 2026, CPD’s budget will bump to $2.1 billion, which includes $101.1 million more in overtime, nearly double this year’s ...

Chicago faces a $1.15 billion shortfall, partly due to federal funding cuts and the expiration of COVID-era grants, such as ...

Chicago Documenters explored how intergenerational relationships shape how people live, work, organize and build community as part of a collaboration with the Civic Reporting Fellowship.

City Bureau hosted reporters from WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News to share their findings on Chicago’s lead pipe problem ...

The City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship is a paid, 16-week opportunity for emerging journalists looking to grow their skills in reporting, community engagement and leadership. Fellows attend ...

Join the Video Consortium Chicago — in partnership with City Bureau and the Emmy award-winning outlet Evident Media — for a screening of “Operation: Return to Sender.” Earlier this year, the ...

Nearly 2 million Illinoisans will stop receiving food assistance Saturday because of the federal government shutdown. Chicago ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago just launched one of the largest guaranteed-income programs in the U.S. But how long have Americans been pushing for government-backed income as a solution to entrenched poverty and inequality ...