City Bureau interviewed former Chicago Public School students, parents and teachers to see what priorities are shaping the ...

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 — ARPA — helped to prop up municipal budgets during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing ...

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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 ...

It wasn't until Michelle Kennedy left Bronzeville for City Planning graduate school in the 1990s that she learned her Chicago neighborhood’s name. After observing a classmate's presentation on the ...

3,253 public meeting assignments were published across the Documenters Network, including notes, live tweets, audio, and special assignments. That brings our all-time total to over 12,000 completed ...

“Perfect Storm” is a series focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities, produced by City Bureau in partnership with local organizations in the Documenters Network. It ...

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 ...

“Perfect Storm” is a series focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities, produced by City Bureau in partnership with local organizations in the Documenters Network. It ...

For the past six years, City Bureau and our partners in Detroit, Cleveland and Minneapolis have trained and paid thousands of community members to document local public meetings. The Documenters ...

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