Do you owe money for parking tickets and other unpaid fines? Here’s what you need to know about Chicago’s debt sale, debt ...

Chicago’s debt sale and what it means for YOU. Chicago is tapping Bank of America to carry out its unprecedented sale of city ...

Here’s what you need to know as the city takes another step toward selling off at least $1 billion worth of vehicle debt to a ...

The future of Chicago’s parking meters is being met with continued controversy. At the start of 2026, the current owners of Chicago Parking Meters — a consortium including Morgan Stanley, Allianz ...

Leave us a note below! About City Bureau With local media in crisis in Chicago and across the country, City Bureau has been at the forefront of a movement to reimagine journalism as a public good. Our ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: Our Civic Reporting Fellowship reporting series, Decoding the City Budget, relied on extensive Documenters notes covering City Council budget hearings last fall. Find more public ...

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 ...

“Our seniors, low-income families with small children, and persons with disabilities simply can't afford this. They are also not able to walk those long distances into those parks.” — Anne Holcomb, an ...

Civic life is blooming in New Jersey. In Newark, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice has trained and paid everyday community members as Documenters to inform their neighbors about their ...

Passed in the summer of 2021, the ordinance established structures for both citywide and hyperlocal input on Chicago’s public safety infrastructure via the seven-member appointed Community Commission ...

It’s time to change things up. Can you help? Since launching Newswire in 2021, we’ve tried out various ways of sharing civic information with our audience. Now, we’re ready for our biggest ...