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Policy Bulletin 📌 Starting a Municipal Grocery Store: Background and First Steps April 2026 Across the country, communities are confronting a deepening grocery crisis: prices continue to climb, nei...

Elected leaders with Local Progress discuss how they are moving progressive policy forward while defending against the assaults of the Trump administration.

Local Progress and the Local Progress Impact Lab’s Executive Director, Ivan Luevanos-Elms remembers State Senator, LP founding member, and friend, Faith Winter. In a year where bold leadership has been so necessary, we are grieving the loss of a fighter and a force who served as one of the founding members of Local Progress – […]

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.

Joy. Hope. Fired up.  These are just a few words to encapsulate our time together from July 10-12, 2025. To those of you who were in Chicago and those who were there in spirit – thank you for being a ...

When people call 911, they want to know they’ll be met with an empathetic response – one that meets the needs of their emergency, rather than escalating the situation. This past weekend, 12 local elec...