Official directives or commands from the Mayor to agencies in the executive branch. These orders generally concern the ...

Stop by LVL UP Coffee and meet with City Bureau staff and friends to learn about opportunities to connect on the issues that ...

Despite the daunting financial and logistical challenges they face, young mothers like Griffin, McCray, Boyd and Tennyson are ...

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 ...

Last fall, City Bureau kicked off a partnership with Cook County to design and implement the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program, a groundbreaking new initiative that leverages community ...

Cal Ning doesn’t tell new people they are trans. Ning, 21, soft-spoken and polite, moved to Chicago from Lake County in January and is living with a friend in Pilsen. After finishing an associate ...

Rakya Graham, 23, is a painter and poet studying art at Harold Washington College in the Loop. Still, her only paying job — a server at The Cheesecake Factory — has nothing to do with her artistic ...

Chad Emerson didn’t fully grasp how politics could shape his life — until he was incarcerated. Emerson, 39, was convicted of felony drug charges in 2012 and spent nearly eight years in federal prison ...

Men dressed solely in underwear pepper an uncrowded, low-lit gay club in Chicago’s Boystown on a chilly weekend night. Pop music thumps loud enough to drown out intimate conversation. Bartenders mix ...

Five recently arrived migrants say criminal trespassing enforcement at a Southwest Side Home Depot has escalated to alleged physical assaults by security personnel, including multiple off-duty Chicago ...

“If we do not issue this permit, Sims will continue to operate under the permit that they had from before. That's what has been happening for the last four years.” —Dr. Olusimbo Ige, Chicago’s public ...

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