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 ...

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 ...

In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly Center, which rents space to local churches and Neighbor2Neighbor, a nonprofit that serves food to the ...

Kids at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center have been confined to their cells more than 55,000 times in the past two-and-a-half years. Taken together, the time they’ve spent in ...

Joyce Edwards is one of the last few holdouts in a section of Englewood taken over by a rail yard expansion by Norfolk Southern. She’s taking the company to court seeking fair compensation for her ...

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 ...

Ian Haney- López, a constitutional law scholar, discusses his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics,” at the University of Chicago in November 2014. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...