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 ...

A version of this story was first published in the June 24, 2026 issue of the Newswire, an email newsletter that is your ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The day begins in a circle. It’s 8 a.m. inside Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) Health Center. Chairs are drawn together, and the 23 men in the Green ReEntry program start their 15-minute ...

Peoples Gas wants to institute a $202 million rate hike. If passed, customers would pay an average of another $11 a month, or about $130 a year. The ICC is made up of five commissioners responsible ...

Queer Black Chicagoans have no trouble naming the mentors who inspired them as they shaped their young lives. For Leslie Givens, it was Boris Powell, a Chicago-based fashion designer who was “always ...

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The sun has set, and the gym pulses with energy at Midnight Basketball in Austin. Along parallel walls, bold letters spell out BUILD, with the words “Hope, Lives, Futures” painted just beneath — more ...