As the Trump administration seeks to cut funding for housing-first models of homelessness prevention, thousands could be at ...
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Developers behind a Southeast Side quantum computing campus have planned to build a data center on the northern part of the ...
Public courtrooms are one of the places where government power is most visible—and where the public is most absent. Court proceedings are technically open to the public, but you likely won’t see ...
Between COVID-era ARPA funding, federal cuts from the Trump administration and increased need in Chicago and Illinois, ...
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 ...
Editor’s note: This story discusses crisis mental healthcare and mentions violent crime. Chicago Documenters notes from Nikebia Brown-Joseph, Katie Busch, Fabienne Elie, Ava Grubb, Holland Harmon, ...
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 ...
Should Illinois residents who take in more income pay a higher tax rate? At its core, that was the matter at the top of every Illinois voter’s ballot this November. With huge amounts of resources ...
Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Boystown on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders mix ...
Chicago Documenters notes from Layla Brown-Clark, Katie Busch, Madeleine Davison, Katrina Herring and Brandi Scarber were used to help report this story. Find more public meeting coverage at ...