The ICC is made up of five commissioners responsible for regulating public utilities (as well as other industries) under the ...

Before City Bureau, Jody spent nearly a decade at Heartland Alliance, one of Chicago’s prominent social justice organizations ...

ICE at the airport. As of Monday, ICE agents have been deployed to over 14 airports across the country, including 75 agents ...

From neighborhood issues to public meetings, people are constantly trying to make sense of what’s happening around them. In this workshop, we’ll share what we heard from Chicagoans during a recent ...

From city council to city colleges, commission on landmarks to the metropolitan water reclamation board documenters spend hours inside the rooms where decisions take shape. This event brings us ...

Join the whole Documenters Network for our first virtual network-wide community event of 2026, starting at 6 ET / 5 CT / 3 PT. Any Documenter from any community can join this event—regardless of ...

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 ...

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 ...

This fall I curated a series of Public Newsrooms that we called, “Community Care in the 2020 Election: We Gon Be Alright,” which began by talking about building safe space. On Nov. 21 at Experimental ...

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 ...

Queer Black Chicagoans have no trouble naming the mentors who inspired them as they shaped their young lives. For Leslie Givens, it was Boris Powell, a Chicago-based fashion designer who was “always ...