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It’s that time of year: We’re on the hunt for the most high-integrity workers employed by the City of Philadelphia. Nominate the most inspiring city workers you know, and they could be named a 2026 Integrity Icon

Your curated list of the best semiquincentennial events, exhibits, and activities happening in and around Philly

For his advocacy, fundraising, mentorship and more, the Philly native and University of Pennsylvania senior is this year’s Youth Citizen of the Year

A Philly makers pop-up that features milk-waste clothing, beef-tallow soaps and Food & Wine-approved billion layer lasagna, fighting climate crisis with creativity

In his new book, author and thought leader Richard Vague tells the story of Thomas Willing, the most powerful figure in U.S. history you’ve never heard of. Join Vague and The Citizen for a book event April 14

Is this City-funded program — which also helps participants build job skills and rethink decisions — responsible for Philadelphia’s declining homicide rate?

Parenting infants and little children can be incredibly lonely. Hannah Fenlon, Linda Joy and Hannah Newman have a solution in a co-op that already includes 80 families

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

The president of a free market think tank urges Pennsylvania to opt in to help students — both public and private — with school costs

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with Jonathan White, former director of a federal unaccompanied child program, about a Texas facility reportedly flagged for inadequate medical care where pregnant teen migrants are being sent