Members of Chicago’s Use of Force Community Working Group criticized use-of-force training by the Chicago Police Department.

In an audio interview, former Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson described an effort to formalize the training of new aldermen, and gave insights into why it failed.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to audio from 2023's February meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

Developer Sterling Bay plans to construct a 15-story commercial and residential building just outside the border of Lincoln Yards.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated audio from 2022's July meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

The Chicago City Council's Office of Financial Analysis has produced reports with material lifted word-for-word from outside sources.

A threatened seizure of the James R. Thompson Center has been linked to a convicted property fraudster.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben heard audio from and remarked on six sessions of the full Chicago City Council that took place in May, 2022.

The architect of the 33rd Ward's 2022 remap, Ald. Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez, says that she aimed for community cohesion—not re-election.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben listened to and evaluated parts of City Council meetings that took place in April and May of 2022.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben evaluated audio from March, 2022 meetings of the Chicago City Council.

The proposed Cicero/Stevenson TIF district cleared its first governmental hurdle on March 3, with approval by a joint review board.

An open-government bonanza revealed e-mail and text messages to and from Mayor Lori Lightfoot spanning the years 2019 to 2021.

In an audio interview by Dave Glowacz with Ald. Anthony Beale (9), Beale described the reasons for—and latest obstacles to—an ordinance that would let Chicago's City Council hire its own legal department.

Transcript of Oct. 21 remarks by former Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson on the uses of data to solve inequities in the criminal justice system.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben inspected audio from several October 2021 meetings of the Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben probed a September 2021 meeting of the full Chicago City Council.

In a discussion by journalists Dave Glowacz and Ben Joravsky, Dave and Ben examined three pre-Independence Day meetings of the full Chicago City Council.

Lincoln Yards developer Sterling Bay has shifted its first-stage construction plans—inviting questions about public input.

Interview with Ald. Andre Vasquez about a proposal to consider changing how Chicago redraws its ward boundaries.