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We are excited to welcome Eve Lacivita to the team as City Bureau’s new Director of Product! Eve is a Chicagoland native turned Idahoan, currently based in Boise. She boasts over 15 years of product ...

Newswire: Restaurant for rats Welcome to Newswire — your weekly guide to Chicago government, civic action and what action we ...

The City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship is a paid, 16-week opportunity for emerging journalists looking to grow their skills in reporting, community engagement and leadership. Fellows attend weekly ...

News coverage of Chicago, produced by City Bureau reporters and Documenters. To see select projects created in our Civic Reporting Programs, go to Collections.

“A transparent and effective budgeting process for the third-largest city in the nation is not one that's going to happen in 60 days.” — Deborah Witzburg, Chicago’s inspector general, agreeing with ...

Out of years of reporting, research and relationships with community members, City Bureau has built “Will That New Development Benefit Your Community? The People’s Guide to Community Benefits ...

The story of Black generational wealth in Chicago is expansive. From the founding of the city by Black Haitian-American Jean Baptiste Point du Sable to the Great Migration to now, Black people have ...

Chicago Documenters is our local hub for civic action and public oversight of local government through local media. We train and pay Chicagoans like you to attend public meetings and publish the ...

Summer 2022: Are policymakers keeping their promises to reduce racial disparities in the economic fallout of the pandemic? We’ll learn from low- and moderate-income Chicagoans how economic policy ...

An analysis of data and interviews with political insiders shows how momentum for strong police accountability measures was halted in City Council. In the wake of the November 2015 release of a video ...