In Chicago’s 49th Ward, the sidewalks were cracked, broken and difficult to navigate. Residents wanted them fixed. So in an unusual experiment, Alderman Joe Moore gave them money -- $1.3 million to be ...

Rebecca Wei lives in Rogers Park, and like many Chicagoans, she takes the ‘L’ everywhere. “I pass by the Morse ‘L’ stop twice a day, every day, and once or twice a year, there’s a guy standing there ...

Participatory budgeting, a process that allows citizens a say in how public money is spent, is a fast-growing local governance trend in the U.S. Just one council district used the process in the ...

An audience of at least 70 people packed into the library of P.S. 192 in a far uptown corner of Harlem. It was June 2014, and they were there to attend one of a series of events to kick off the first ...

In April, the New York City Council completed its eighth annual cycle of participatory budgeting, a process through which city residents vote directly on how they would like to see a designated ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...

The announcement said this year’s cycle of participatory budgeting — a process in which local citizens decide how to allocate a portion of the city’s budget towards residents’ proposals — will operate ...

Sacramento might have an opportunity to give some residents more say in how some of its budget is spent. But with money tight as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, some are debating how much of the ...

The winners of last week’s vote for Participatory Budgeting for District 33 are in! Coming in first was a proposal for district-wide tree planting, an initiative that will receive $100,000. $200,000 ...

Do you know how your local tax dollars are spent? I’m going to guess that you don’t. People ferociously debate every inch of the federal budget. Meanwhile, at the city level, a significant amount of ...