The proposed wealth tax, or “millionaires tax,” would implement an additional 3% income tax on those making more than $1 ...

Join City Bureau’s Documenters Network for an interactive workshop focused on the mutual aid and community care tool, pod-mapping! The workshop will take place on Zoom on Monday evening, April 27 from ...

What would a millionaires tax look like in Illinois? Some state lawmakers are pushing to get a wealth tax on the ballot in ...

Years pass, budgets are approved, but people are still confused. In the weeks after Chicago finalized its $16.8 billion budget, City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellows spoke to South and West siders about ...

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 ...

Restorative Justice Community Courts (RJCC) are making a resurgence. Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has instructed her office to resume sending qualifying cases to RJCC. RJCC are ...

When Melannie Gonzalez thinks of bilingual kids programs, “Dora the Explorer” immediately comes to mind. For 25 years, the Nickelodeon TV series and spinoffs about a 7-year-old Latina adventurer have ...

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 ...

SirJayden Addison has been involved with Crushers Club since he was 9. The South Side community organization, which serves at-risk boys and young men year-round, has consistently supported him into ...

Editor’s update: November SNAP benefits are scheduled to be fully sent out by Nov. 20. If you or someone you know needs food, visit the Greater Chicago Food Depository website, Feeding Illinois or the ...

In this context, a rapid response system is made up of community members and organizations working together to quickly confirm when federal agents are in an area and warn neighbors who may be at risk ...

Editor’s note. This story was updated Nov. 3 after Giménez González was released from custody and returned home. A Chicago asylum seeker has been released from federal immigration detention, more than ...