Chicagoans who rely on SNAP may be hearing mixed messages about benefit disruptions and upcoming rule changes. Here’s what’s ...

Community mental health services are widely known in Chicago, but access becomes far less clear outside city ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly ...

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 ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

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 ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference announcing the findings of the Justice Department’s yearlong civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department on Jan. 13, 2017, flanked by ...

Aldermen representing the area around the 606 Trail won a six-month freeze in demolition permits this month, hoping to use the time to devise strategies to reduce pressures causing the displacement of ...

Bilingual teacher Nancy Serrano provides support to English learners in her eighth-grade English language arts class at Hernández Middle School. Credit: Photo by Yingxu Jane Hao Two years ago, Chicago ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Community advocate Ja’Mal Green has been protesting across the city following the police killing ...