Crime prevention, public health surveillance, and disaster preparedness programs across the country are getting hit by federal funding instability and the end of COVID-era grants.

Chicago used federal money to launch two pandemic-era programs to help renters with cash and legal assistance to keep them ...

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“Perfect Storm” is a series focused on how federal funding instability is affecting local communities, produced by City Bureau in partnership with local organizations in the Documenters Network. It ...

Approved in 1986 and amended over the years, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO) is meant to “protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens” and “to ...

Few policy documents have a more direct impact on our lives than the city’s annual budget. It determines whether the streets and lead water pipes on your block get fixed, how much you pay for grocery ...

Bank of America has dropped out of Chicago’s unprecedented plan to sell city-owned debt. The San Francisco-based bank’s exit is another setback in the city’s plan to sell at least $1 billion of ...

The City of Chicago is selling debt residents and visitors owe for municipal fines and fees to a private debt collector as a way to help cover its 2026 budget gap. While owing money for traffic ...

Chicago is tapping Bank of America to carry out its unprecedented sale of city-owned debt, a city spokesperson said. The deal with the San Francisco-based bank is one step forward in the city’s plan ...

Passed in the summer of 2021, the ordinance established structures for both citywide and hyperlocal input on Chicago’s public safety infrastructure via the seven-member appointed Community Commission ...

Editor’s note: This story discusses crisis mental healthcare and mentions violent crime. Chicago Documenters notes from Nikebia Brown-Joseph, Katie Busch, Fabienne Elie, Ava Grubb, Holland Harmon, ...