A guide to who holds the power and purse strings when it comes to Chicago’s money.
Budget season is here but it’s more dogged than usual. How will the city recover from a nearly billion-dollar budget gap?
[South Side Weekly] If you speak any of these eleven languages, here’s what should be provided to you for voting—and what to do if it’s not.
[South Side Weekly] Understanding Chicago’s internet access referendum
[South Side Weekly] Social services are on the line in the fight over the Illinois Fair Tax
Dorian Sylvain and her sons heal the ‘open wounds’ of disinvestment with their art.
Latinx immigrants in three South Side neighborhoods—Back of the Yards, Pilsen and South Chicago—share their fears and hopes as the 2020 census count comes to an end.
Data gives us part of the picture of the so-called eviction avalanche in Chicago. Help us fill in the rest.
Chicago election officials seek paid election judges in November, especially those who are multilingual.
City Council is set to revisit an ordinance that would provide more protection from eviction. Here’s what that means for Chicago tenants.
As time runs out, some of the neighborhoods in Chicago with the lowest census response rates are those with high numbers of Latinx immigrants.
[Block Club Chicago] The expiring eviction moratorium will "let loose an avalanche of misery on… Illinoisians that can’t make the rent,” organizers said, urging Gov. JB Pritzker to extend the eviction moratorium and cancel rent and mortgage payments.
As debate rages in Washington, undocumented immigrants fear that federal relief may never come. Southwest Side community organizers see a need for systemic change.
[Chicago Reader] “There is a system in place that keeps people homeless and poor and it's so much bigger than any particular organization.”
[Block Club Chicago] For months, residents of Mac Properties buildings say they've asked the landlord for help with rent amid the coronavirus pandemic. But their pleas have been ignored, they said.
During a turbulent time for civic engagement in the U.S., we surveyed first- and second-generation immigrants on voting, activism and barriers to civic participation.
In May, we surveyed South Shore renters about their tenant experience and information needs. Here are five things we learned from the process.
[Chicago Reader] On returning home and finding joy at the 42nd annual Puerto Rican People's Day Parade
When Lightfoot shuttered Chicago Public Schools’ free meal program for a day, Black and brown Chicagoans stepped up to the plate to make sure everybody eats—while holding space for revolution and joy.
As comprehensive rent relief stalls and the backlog of eviction filings grows, three housing experts offer their advice on what hard-hit tenants can do now to avoid eviction.