2024
Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for “Missing in Chicago” series by Senior Reporter Sarah Conway and Data Director Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute
Izzy Award for “Missing in Chicago” for “outstanding achievement in independent media” by Senior Reporter Sarah Conway and Data Director Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting, Small Newsroom for “Missing in Chicago” by Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler
Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards in 4 categories for “Missing in Chicago”:
Best multimedia collaboration
The Invisible Institute and City Bureau’s “Missing in Chicago” by Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway
Best use of feature video
The Invisible Institute and City Bureau’s Missing in Chicago” by cai thomas, Brooke Lawrence, Erisa Apantaku, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Sarah Conway and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Best reporting on crime and justice by newsroom size and medium
Small newsroom: The Invisible Institute and City Bureau; “Missing in Chicago” by Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Sarah Conway
Best reporting on race and diversity by newsroom size and medium:
Small newsroom: The Invisible Institute and City Bureau; “Missing in Chicago” by Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway
2023
SPJ's Sunshine Awards for Documenters.org for notable contributions to open government
2022
Chicago Journalists Association Awards in the Public Service Category to Sarah Conway, Alma Campos and Phoebe Mogharei
“3 Strategies for Community Coalitions to Influence Real Estate Development”
“Policy Changes That Could Signal the Future of Development in Chicago”
Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award to Davon Clark for Best Design in a Print Publication for the Community Benefits Agreement Zine
2021
Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards in 4 categories:
Best Feature Series for “Inside Chicago’s Silent Housing Crisis”
Best Feature Reporting on Covid-19 for “Inside Chicago’s Silent Housing Crisis”
Best Illustration for “Breaking the Cycle” by Kiki Lechuga-Dupont
Best Online Illustration for “Inside Chicago’s Silent Housing Crisis” by Raziel Puma
2020
Two Scripps-Howard awards for City Bureau/WBEZ series "Where Banks Don't Lend": Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting & Local Investigation
2019
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Rising Star Award to City Bureau Co-founders.
Online Journalism Awards Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism to City Bureau’s Documenters.org
2018
Chicago Review of Books Best Essay awarded to Sarah Conway and Sebastián Hidalgo (photos) for After Unthinkable Loss
2017
Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award in 4 categories:
Best Education Reporting in Newspaper or Magazine to Yana Kunichoff
Best Photography to Sebastián Hidalgo
2016
Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award in:
Best In-Depth reporting in community Newspaper to Timna Axel, Bettina Chang, Darryl Holliday, Enrique Perez, Nissa Rhee, Staff for “Living With Lead”
Best Start-up
March Sidney Award to Yana Kunichoff and Sam Stecklow for “How Chicago’s ‘Fraternal Order of Propaganda’ shapes the story of fatal police shootings
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