City Bureau is a nonprofit civic media organization based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

9 hours ago · “Investigatory stops that target Black and Latino young people disproportionately are on the rise as CPD hunts for guns. Pretextual vehicle stops don't serve the people CPD claims to protect.” — Ali Longbottom, speaking as a member of the Free2Move Coalition and the Chicago Appleseed Center ...

In November 2022, former Chicago Documenter Sebastián González de León founded the San Pedro Gazette in St. Petersburg, Florida, an independent newsroom with a mission to “create an informed, empowered, and critical public by creating impact-oriented journalism” and was accepted into the Google News Initiative Pre-Launch Lab.His time as a Documenter influenced him and how he shaped the ...

Project conceived by Alma Campos, Civic Reporting Fellowship alum Writing and reporting by Alma Campos, Sarah Conway and Phoebe Mogharei. Out of years of reporting, research and relationships with community members, City Bureau has built “Will That New Development Benefit Your Community?

3 days ago · On an unseasonably warm day, more than 100 day laborers stand on the curb between two large Home Depot parking lots in Chatham. Venezuelans take up the corner, and Senegalese migrants stand in the middle. Ecuadorians and Colombians are at the far end of the strip. Everyone is looking for work, and ...

Civic Reporting Programs at City Bureau are hands-on training opportunities where journalists of different experience levels can grow their skills in a supportive environment.

Jan 15, 2025 · City Bureau spoke with more than a dozen migrant day laborers who said wage theft, sub-minimum wage rates, and clashes with Home Depot security personnel — including off-duty Chicago Police Department officers — have made it precarious for them to look for work.

Bettina Chang is currently a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a City Bureau co-founder and previously served as Director of Chicago Programs. An editor by trade, her career has spanned roles and mediums, including trade magazines, traditional newspapers, digital audience strategy, product design, newsroom training, …

6,100 Total Documenters assignments completed across the network. 200+ Newly trained Chicago Documenters 300+ Chicago public meetings covered through Documenters assignments 680 Government bodies tracked by Documenters nationally. 14 …

Oct 11, 2024 · City Bureau and Invisible Institute, two nonprofit newsrooms based in Chicago, have won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for the “Missing in Chicago” series, written by Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and published in November, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced Monday afternoon.