Nearly 2 million Illinoisans will stop receiving food assistance Saturday because of the federal government shutdown. Chicago ...

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 ...

Bibiana Saucedo’s middle-of-the-night art sessions usually end with exhausted brushes and fresh paint scattered around her family’s Pilsen home. She stays up late so her inspiration doesn’t wane, said ...

José Muñoz doesn’t have many photos of his childhood — almost all of them were lost between evictions and living in homelessness during his youth. His mother, an immigrant, worked two jobs to provide ...

Once a sponsored sailboat racer and geologist, Jamie Grisko, 35, faced early retirement after an acute COVID-19 infection. Grisko, of North Lawndale, was diagnosed in December 2020 during early ...

The city needs more spaces for young people to connect and support each other. The best ones are spearheaded by the young people they’re meant to serve, organizers say. Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch ...

On a cold, snowy morning in mid-March, Marielis Yepez, 30, and Adriana Valencia, 32, search for one particular contractor in a sea of customers loading their cars at a Southwest Side Home Depot. The ...

This year, City Bureau partnered with Cook County to design and implement. the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to promote digital inclusion through ...

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 ...

We are incredibly proud to share that City Bureau Senior Reporter Sarah Conway and Invisible Institute Data Director Trina Reynolds-Tyler have won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for their ...

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