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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illinois currently finds itself in a dire fiscal state. A main cause of this has been years of passing laws without any consideration of the resulting financial costs. An egregious example of this is ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Illinois currently finds itself in a dire fiscal state. A main cause of this has been years of ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. CHICAGO — LaShon Minter Williams is waiting for a letter that could arrive any day now — one that may force her to leave the home ...

Equality is about ensuring that every individual regardless of race, religion, disability and gender are treated fairly and have equal opportunity. The ensuing fight for equality recognizes that ...

The idea that anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism started after September 11, 2001, is one thing many progressives get wrong. At least since the late 1970s, the U.S. government has been racially ...