During Operation Midway Blitz, when federal immigration agents swarmed Chicago in 2025, Latine and Polish churchgoers in Back ...

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Years pass, budgets are approved, but people are still confused. In the weeks after Chicago finalized its $16.8 billion budget, City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellows spoke to South and West siders about ...

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 ...

“This also continues the story of playing with the lives of black and brown students and families as though stability is a luxury that these families do not deserve.” — Dr. Diane Castro, financial ...

The sun has set, and the gym pulses with energy at Midnight Basketball in Austin. Along parallel walls, bold letters spell out BUILD, with the words “Hope, Lives, Futures” painted just beneath — more ...

Who gets to grow up surrounded by elders — or have mentors who invest in them? City Bureau Civic Reporting fellows spoke to grocery shoppers in Near West Side on a fall afternoon to learn more about ...

We’re excited to celebrate the work of Dawn, City Bureau’s Civic Editor! In her short time with us, she’s helped revitalize our Civic Reporting Fellowship and strengthen our editorial pipeline. With a ...

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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 ...

Bibiana Saucedo’s middle-of-the-night art sessions usually end with exhausted brushes and fresh paint scattered around her family’s Pilsen home. She stays up late so her inspiration doesn’t wane, said ...