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Editor's note: This is part of a five-story series reported at the Housing Action Illinois conference in Bloomington on Oct. 24-25. The stories ran…

A busy Monday night meeting saw the Bloomington City Council approve a balanced budget for the fiscal year starting May 1, and move forward with redevelopment agreements at two prominent locations in the city.

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times the city has been under tighter federal control.

More than a year after ISIS was driven out, residents are doing their best to rebuild in historic neighborhoods left in rubble. "Even if no one else came back," a shopkeeper says, "I would come back."

In the convention host cities of Milwaukee and Charlotte, people are wondering: As much as they wanted to host these events, is the price too high in terms of residents' exposure?

Bezos will soon marry Lauren Sánchez in Venice. Protesters say the city, already grappling with overtourism, is putting the wedding over their needs — which city officials and wedding organizers deny.

Texas has no state-mandated minimum wage and forbids cities or counties to pass their own. But a group of religious activists in San Antonio is making headway on a living wage for city employees.

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Alina Beskrovna, a native of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. She was trapped there for weeks as Russian forces laid siege.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell how his city is coping after the massive winter storm that swept across much of the country this weekend.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas about the investigation into the shooting of a Black teenager by a white homeowner after the teen mistakenly arrived at the wrong address.