“If we’re not creating spaces for young people to congregate and be young, but we are creating an ordinance that, while it ...

A new study compares Grand Rapids Documenters’ notes with official city meeting minutes, showing how our approach to note ...

— Jenny Hua, interim deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health on how mental health affects Chicago's life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents. There is a growing ...

From Detroit to Los Angeles, Documenters are helping people track public spending, fight misinformation, and bring overlooked ...

Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff. Andre Wallace* has wanted to move for months. The West ...

Since 2016 the Public Newsroom has brought people together to discuss, debate and deconstruct how news and information is created and shared in our communities on Chicago’s South and West Sides. This ...

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 ...

This story was reported and published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that ...

This fall I curated a series of Public Newsrooms that we called, “Community Care in the 2020 Election: We Gon Be Alright,” which began by talking about building safe space. On Nov. 21 at Experimental ...