City Bureau, Video Consortium Chicago and Evident Media hosted journalists, free press advocates, and community members to ...

Artist Zahra Baker came up in “a system of care” before the HIV/AIDS epidemic decimated communities. With health crises and ...

Changosnakedog uses puppets, music and multiple languages to connect people across languages and generations. Founder Otto ...

Dominic Pacyga, an urban historian and author, has researched immigration history for decades. As ICE raids hit local ...

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network’s Green ReEntry program brings younger people and elders together for mentorship and ...

The city of Chicago’s budget uses multiple sources of revenue (how the city makes or collects money) to pay for various expenses (how the city spends money ). All the money the city collects (or ...

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 ...

This 2 hour training will introduce you to the Chicago Documenters community, starting with a walk-through of Documenters.org and our assignment workflow. You’ll practice core skills relevant to a ...

Neighbors at our Public Newsroom about Chicago’s lead pipes problem wanted to know more about finding the best water filter ...

Cardboard boxes of food stacked across the kitchen might appear scattered to outsiders, but make sense to staff working in a building on East 71st Street, in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. The ...

They’re eager to work. They bring a host of skills and experience, including in higher education, banking, construction work, clothing design and mechanics. Still, recently arrived migrants are ...

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 ...