Volunteer for the ICIRR’s Court Watch program. Volunteers spend a few hours per month observing and bearing witness to ...

Join City Bureau and PUÑO for a Public Newsroom on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood! PUÑO has ...

Join City Bureau for Open Office October! Each Thursday in October, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., you are invited to come work at ...

What’s your job again? Two and half years after they were elected, 10th Police District Council members are answering some of the same questions: What exactly do they do? Both before and after council ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Para la versión en español de este artículo, haga click aquí. View and print the tri-fold guide here. Welcome to Chicago, where you have the right to work in a safe environment and get paid. Every ...

It wasn't until Michelle Kennedy left Bronzeville for City Planning graduate school in the 1990s that she learned her Chicago neighborhood’s name. After observing a classmate's presentation on the ...