City Bureau, Video Consortium Chicago and Evident Media hosted journalists, free press advocates, and community members to ...

Artist Zahra Baker came up in “a system of care” before the HIV/AIDS epidemic decimated communities. With health crises and ...

Changosnakedog uses puppets, music and multiple languages to connect people across languages and generations. Founder Otto ...

Dominic Pacyga, an urban historian and author, has researched immigration history for decades. As ICE raids hit local ...

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network’s Green ReEntry program brings younger people and elders together for mentorship and ...

The city of Chicago’s budget uses multiple sources of revenue (how the city makes or collects money) to pay for various expenses (how the city spends money ). All the money the city collects (or ...

Whether you are an experienced documenter or someone who is looking to hone their knowledge base this workshop will sharpen your ear, strengthen your note taking, and boost public transparency. This ...

Cardboard boxes of food stacked across the kitchen might appear scattered to outsiders, but make sense to staff working in a building on East 71st Street, in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. The ...

Rakya Graham, 23, is a painter and poet studying art at Harold Washington College in the Loop. Still, her only paying job — a server at The Cheesecake Factory — has nothing to do with her artistic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marion Turner moved to Wicker Park in the 1950s when vacant buildings and crime were common and the city’s disinvestment in the neighborhood was painfully apparent. In the 70s, Turner started looking ...