This week's update covers what the immigration crackdown is doing to our communities, the ongoing exploitation of our personal data, and what's going on with federal workers and medical research fundi...

Soup & Bread Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As ever, we will be marshaling teams of volunteer soup cooks to fill our crock pots and serving bread from our friends at Middlebrow and Publican Quality Bread. Each mo...

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.   By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year ...