All 12 articles by Joel Handley

• 13 Jun 13

• Features

  A Budget by the People, for the People

  Participatory budgeting is on the menu in Chicago. MORE »

• 22 May 13

• Uprising

  Why I Followed Rahm Emanuel to the Bathroom

  As the Chicago mayor’s hand-picked Board of Education prepares to vote on a plan to close... more »

• 10 May 13

• Features

  Whose Budget? Their Budget.

  At their first participatory budgeting vote, 5th ward residents take $1 million in municipal funds into their own hands. MORE »

• 12 Apr 13

• Features

  A Crash Course in Citizen Budgeting

  What Chicago can learn from participatory budgeting projects around the world. MORE »

• 28 Feb 13

• Features

  Budgetary Power to the People

  An experiment with direct democracy on Chicago's South Side. MORE »

• 12 Mar 12

• Features

  Out of Order Comes Chaos

  Chicago's black gangs aren't the criminal enterprises they once were, but the police won't change their story. MORE »

• 31 Jan 12

• Features

  Illinois’ Injustice System

  Budget cuts are hard on ex-cons trying to make good. MORE »

• 19 Dec 11

• Features

  The Poverty of School Reform

  In Chicago's African-American neighborhoods, schools change quickly—regardless of what families want. MORE »

• 23 Sep 11

• Act Locally

  Donald Rumsfeld’s Ugly Suits

  U.S. citizens suing the former defense secretary for torture may finally get a day in court. MORE »

• 15 Jul 11

• Act Locally

  Divesting From Private Prisons

  A new coalition of immigrant and labor groups tries to shame the nation's largest investment firms. MORE »

• 01 Mar 11

• Working

  After Valentine’s Day Firing, Ill. Workers Protest for Better Severance Pay

  Consolidating packaging industry underscores proliferation of temp jobs CHICAGO—Employees at Innerpac Inc., a Chicago-area packaging manufacturer,... MORE »

• 18 Mar 09

• Act Locally

  ‘Zee’ End of Blackwater?

  The troubled security firm gets a makeover. MORE »