An image from the Invisible Institute's website on missing Chicago women. (Provided)

“We are looking at issues that have been covered for a long time, but we’re looking at them at the root. We’re seeing people as complex people that control their own stories, and that’s really important,” City Bureau senior reporter Sarah Conway said.

Shantieya Smith’s mother. (Provided)

Black people comprise about two-thirds of all reported missing persons cases in Chicago over the past two decades.

Chicago City Hall (Ken Lund / Flickr)

How transparent is local government? See which agencies made the grade in a new report from nonprofit journalism lab City Bureau. Reporter Sarah Conway tells us more.