The Chicago Reporter analyzed CPS’s 2026 approved budget and found that local revenues are expected to grow more than state revenues despite pressure from advocates and board members to get more help ...

When Jailene Ochoa’s family moved in 2017 from suburban Cicero to Gage Park in Chicago’s Southwest side, she could feel a difference in the air. “You can smell the air, obviously, and it smells like ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but ...

On an early August morning, I stood in a small gymnasium at Logan Correctional Center, a state-run women’s prison in ...

Superintendent of Chicago’s youth jail might not live here, records show This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a ...

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

Elizabeth Hartley, Carol Hartley and Jamie Rhodes pose with a photo of their loved one, James Handy, outside of their Springfield, Ill., home on May 26, 2025. Photo by Hope Moses. It was Monday ...

It was Monday morning, Jan. 22, 2024, when Jamie Rhodes rushed to Hillsboro Health Hospital with her daughter to check on her father, who had been admitted with breathing complications. Upon her ...

On an early August morning, I stood in a small gymnasium at Logan Correctional Center, a state-run women’s prison in southwestern Illinois. Standing shoulder to shoulder with 30 other volunteers, we ...

On an early August morning, I stood in a small gymnasium at Logan Correctional Center, a state-run women’s prison in southwestern Illinois. Standing shoulder to shoulder with 30 other volunteers, we ...

On an early August morning, I stood in a small gymnasium at Logan Correctional Center, a state-run women’s prison in southwestern Illinois. Standing shoulder to shoulder with 30 other volunteers, we ...