“If we’re not creating spaces for young people to congregate and be young, but we are creating an ordinance that, while it doesn’t arrest, it does create prohibitions for young people to be young in ...

A new study compares Grand Rapids Documenters’ notes with official city meeting minutes, showing how our approach to note ...

— Jenny Hua, interim deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health on how mental health affects Chicago's life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents. There is a growing ...

On a Monday evening in March, teenagers and their parents attended an open house at the Arts + Public Life Arts Block in Washington Park. Julia Hinojosa, the associate director of education programs, ...

José Muñoz doesn’t have many photos of his childhood — almost all of them were lost between evictions and living in homelessness during his youth. His mother, an immigrant, worked two jobs to provide ...

Chad Emerson didn’t fully grasp how politics could shape his life — until he was incarcerated. Emerson, 39, was convicted of felony drug charges in 2012 and spent nearly eight years in federal prison ...

Once a sponsored sailboat racer and geologist, Jamie Grisko, 35, faced early retirement after an acute COVID-19 infection. Grisko, of North Lawndale, was diagnosed in December 2020 during early ...

The city needs more spaces for young people to connect and support each other. The best ones are spearheaded by the young people they’re meant to serve, organizers say. Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch ...

Plans are brewing on the far South Side as Parnell People — the block club that comprises the 8700, 8800, and 8900 blocks of South Parnell Avenue — works to build trust and community on its quiet ...

City Bureau's work has always been based in shifting power by equipping communities to share their stories in their own words. We're excited to join the Cook County Office of the President to announce ...