If an officer doesn’t have a warrant or enough information to legally search a car, they can ask a driver to give permission, making it a “consent search,” Gross said. Currently, Gross noted, CPD ...

With ongoing attention and debate around Chicago youth and their place in the city, City Bureau welcomed community members to its Bronzeville office this spring to provide young adults guidance on ...

“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 ...

José Muñoz doesn’t have many photos of his childhood — almost all of them were lost between evictions and living in homelessness during his youth. His mother, an immigrant, worked two jobs to provide ...

It’s Nov. 4, 2024 — a foggy Monday afternoon in Chicago. In less than 36 hours, voters will elect Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Chicago Votes is hosting its last phone ...

Chad Emerson didn’t fully grasp how politics could shape his life — until he was incarcerated. Emerson, 39, was convicted of felony drug charges in 2012 and spent nearly eight years in federal prison ...

Once a sponsored sailboat racer and geologist, Jamie Grisko, 35, faced early retirement after an acute COVID-19 infection. Grisko, of North Lawndale, was diagnosed in December 2020 during early ...

The city needs more spaces for young people to connect and support each other. The best ones are spearheaded by the young people they’re meant to serve, organizers say. Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch ...