City Bureau and Cook County are launching another round of funding to support digital equity projects in Suburban Cook County. Applications are due January 14. One year ago, City Bureau and the Cook ...

This workshop will prepare you to document detention hearings. Chicago Documenters is partnering with Illinois Network for ...

Documenters can expect mock documenting assignments, short writing exercises, and community building activities so make sure ...

Whether you are an experienced documenter or someone who is looking to hone their knowledge base this workshop will sharpen your ear, strengthen your note taking, and boost public transparency. This ...

In an increasingly digital world, technology is always shaping our ability to inform ourselves and one another, and to take action. In this Public Newsroom: Inside Digital Equity, you’ll learn from ...

How to take audio for Chicago Documenters will equip Documenters to record audio at public meetings. At the completion of the ...

Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff. Andre Wallace* has wanted to move for months. The West ...

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 ...

This story was reported and published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that ...

The ideas here were developed in conversation with Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media, Courtney Hurtt of WDET, Eve Pearlman and Adriana Garcia of Spaceship Media, Mike Rispoli of the News Voices Project ...

María Teresa Sánchez has no time to think. She travels from Pilsen to Bolingbrook and back, nearly 30 miles each way, five days a week, to work in a factory where she makes $12 an hour. She spends ...

Chicago just launched one of the largest guaranteed-income programs in the U.S. But how long have Americans been pushing for government-backed income as a solution to entrenched poverty and inequality ...