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The afternoon of Jan. 14, officials at BUILD received an email from one of the organization’s funders at the Illinois Department of Human Services. The email said that a five-year, $2.5 million state grant for mental health care and substance use prevention had been terminated, following the Trump administration’s decision to cut the federal funding.  

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In 2025, the City of Chicago saw a 29% decrease in homicides, Block Club Chicago reported this month — the lowest number of people killing each other in Chicago in 60 years.

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Chicago residents gathered Thursday in Pilsen to protest interactions between Chicago police officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The public meeting was sponsored by The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA at Thalia Hall, drawing Chicago residents from across the city, including the West Side. About 500 people ...


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The CTA el station at Central Avenue on the Blue Line has been abandoned since 1973. But that will soon change as a measure tucked into the state transit reform bill passed last fall requires the transit agency to bring it back to active use.

The 1,043-page bill mostly deals with increasing transit funding, transit agency governance overhaul and public safety impr...


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