Humboldt Park, a bustling cultural hub on Chicago’s West Side, has been the heart of the city’s Puerto Rican community for ...

Humboldt Park, a bustling cultural hub on Chicago’s West Side, has been the heart of the city’s Puerto Rican community for ...

Selling magazines becomes a lifeline for Chicagoans navigating the intersecting barriers of incarceration, addiction, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sabrina Pope, 57, has worked at the Nabisco Bakery in Chicago for 35 years. Her mother also worked there. Credit: Photo by Max Herman When Nabisco’s parent company, Mondelez International, decided to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andre Davis waits at the bus stop near where he lives in Austin. He has to wake up at 4:00 a.m. most days in order to make a two-hour commute to the suburbs. “There is no work here [in Austin],” Davis ...

In Cook County Jail’s new Special Management Unit, incarcerated individuals who were allegedly violent in jail are shackled to tables in a dayroom during a group activity as an alternative to ...

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 ...

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.