Mon, May 20 2019

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It was nearly three hours before sunrise on a frigid October morning when immigration attorney Aissa Olivarez climbed into her Honda CR-V and left her Madison apartment. She drove an hour and 40 minutes to Elgin, Illinois, and got on the commuter…

The City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship is a paid, 11-week opportunity for emerging/early-career reporters. Fellows will work in teams with our experienced Reporting Residents to produce a journalism project on a single, big-picture…

If Illinois is to seriously crack down on greenhouse gas emissions, it has to start with the tailpipes of cars and trucks and the same day-delivery desires of home shoppers even as policy makers set their sights on retiring an already dwindling…