Resources for affordable housing, eviction, homeless shelters, and daily needs for people facing housing insecurity in Chicago.

Both schools formally closed the following month. (ASPIRA also shut down a Northwest Side middle school in 2025 because of ...

As the Trump administration seeks to cut funding for housing-first models of homelessness prevention, thousands could be at ...

Quote/Term of the Week Crisis Assistance Response & Engagement Program (CARE) / noun. Available via 911 throughout Chicago, ...

Public courtrooms are one of the places where government power is most visible—and where the public is most absent. Court proceedings are technically open to the public, but you likely won’t see ...

Between COVID-era ARPA funding, federal cuts from the Trump administration and increased need in Chicago and Illinois, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: Our Civic Reporting Fellowship reporting series, Decoding the City Budget, relied on extensive Documenters notes covering City Council budget hearings last fall. Find more public ...

Chicago just launched one of the largest guaranteed-income programs in the U.S. But how long have Americans been pushing for government-backed income as a solution to entrenched poverty and inequality ...

Should Illinois residents who take in more income pay a higher tax rate? At its core, that was the matter at the top of every Illinois voter’s ballot this November. With huge amounts of resources ...