In Illinois, more than 3.3 million people live with an arrest or a conviction on their record. A legal justice record of any ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas eve in 2023, Andrew Ciaccio was up all night trying to soothe his stomach ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The non-Hispanic white population is not growing as quickly as other groups in the U.S. Credit: Lightfield Studios/shutterstock.com Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the ...

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 ...