As Haiti proceeds through the FIFA World Cup 2026, a limited-time exhibition in Uptown celebrates the players, artists and ...
In Illinois, more than 3.3 million people live with an arrest or a conviction on their record. A legal justice record of any ...
Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality ...
On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...
In a year when the city’s lawyers were hashing out the details of a federal consent decree that will govern police reform efforts for years to come, Chicago taxpayers paid out more than $85 million to ...
Teacher Ben Gunty describes how to find supporting evidence in texts during a freshman multicultural studies class at the original Noble Street campus in West Town. The school routinely posts some of ...
Clyde Ross "bought" his North Lawndale home on contract in 1961. He was able to keep it after joining the Contract Buyers League, which fought for legitimate mortgages by staging a payment strike.
It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...
COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas eve in 2023, Andrew Ciaccio was up all night trying to soothe his stomach pains. When he woke, he could barely sit up. Something was wrong. “It was pretty ...
The Dominick's at 2011 E 71st in the South Shore neighborhood has been closed since 2013. Despite efforts by the city and community groups, a new grocer has yet to move into the location. Credit: ...
A quiet revolution is taking place inside the bustling libraries in Chicago’s West and South Sides. Since June 2024, organizers from BlackRoots Alliance (BA), an organization that advocates for Black ...
As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...