The Chicago Park District wants to hear from Chicagoans about impactful local park projects they want to see happen.

The district has set aside $500,000 for a participatory budget program in which residents will have an opportunity to submit ideas and vote on the category of projects they want prioritized.

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Community members have until midnight this Saturday to vote in Evanston’s participatory budgeting program. Voters are required to register online prior to voting in person or online. Members of the ...

Chicagoans can now pitch and pick their own park upgrades, as the Chicago Park District opens a citywide participatory budgeting process that asks residents to propose and vote on local park projects.

The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, or FREE, will hold a public event to discuss participatory budgeting on Sunday, ...

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 ...

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Commissioner of Finance Minita Sanghvi introduced Participatory Budgeting to the community on April 5 at the City Council meeting. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic ...

Three Queens City Councilmen are participating in Participatory Budgeting this spring: Mark Weprin, Donovan Richards and Eric Ulrich representing Districts 23, 31 and 32. Residents of those districts ...

CLEVELAND – Last week’s midterm elections united millions of Ohio voters, despite all our differences, around the simple idea at the heart of democracy: Our voice matters. Yet in Cleveland, voter ...