On Oct. 14, Chicago City Council unanimously approved a $260.8 million police misconduct settlement–the largest in U.S.

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

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Chicago $1 homes aren’t what they sound like. The city sells vacant lots to developers for $1, and the new homes sell at ...

Leon Finney Jr. walks the 6300 block of South Kenwood Avenue showing off a single-family housing development. Credit: File photo by Marc Monaghan. Calling Rev. Leon Finney Jr. “an iconic person” who ...

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 ...

Community Peacekeepers say reducing shootings means confronting poverty, trauma and instability in the neighborhoods most impacted by violence. Fifteen miles south of the Magnificent Mile, Roseland’s ...

Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, held about 1,750 female inmates as of July 2018. Credit: Photo by Bill Healy During her twenty years in an Illinois prison, Monica Cosby received ...

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.

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 ...

This story was co-published with the Chicago Reader. Gary Sams could hardly breathe. He had begun experiencing early symptoms of rapidly progressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive ...