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

An Ill. bill passed in May aims to support survivors of domestic violence by preventing the collection of coerced debt ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. CHICAGO — LaShon Minter Williams is waiting for a letter ...

Katie Schulder-Battis is a Chicago Reporter contributor and student at Northwestern University. This content is made possible through partnership with the Graduate Science Journalism Medill School ...

New “Justice for Debtor” bill to enable more Illinoisans to participate in small claims court by eliminating appearance fees ...

Juneteenth Chicagoland’s Intersection of Celebration and Calls for Justice The mid-June sunshine reveals Bronzeville streets filled with drumbeats and laughter while barbecue aromas spread through 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 ...

What you fail to see is that legalizing consensual acts would have the effect of turning law enforcers into peace officers. Yes, in this case it may not have made any difference since Laquan (See: ...

Aldermen representing the area around the 606 Trail won a six-month freeze in demolition permits this month, hoping to use the time to devise strategies to reduce pressures causing the displacement of ...

When paramedics arrived, Jesse Bogan was still handcuffed to the wall, blood spurting from three gaping wounds in his left foot. A German Shepherd named Demon had bitten through his sneaker and held ...

Census Bureau projections show that the U.S. population will be “majority-minority” sometime between 2040 and 2050. Our research suggests that this will happen around 2044. Indeed, in 2020, there are ...

King did not seek out to lead the bus boycott in Montgomery, where he had lived for barely a year before Rosa Parks’ arrest. In fact, he was tapped by city elders precisely because he was new in town ...