Free Root Operation is connecting Black women caregivers with resources and helping break generational cycles of violence.

I n May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would open an investigation of the City’s hiring practices under Title ...

Sueños festival organizers leveled up by incorporating smaller activations and lounge areas across the grounds, giving rising ...

Every year we devote our time to story packages that dive deep into specific issues that are prevalent on the South Side, whether current or historic. Traditionally these have been packages around the ...

Children playing outside the Ida B. Wells Homes before their demolition. Photo by Patricia Evans. This is post 2 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” The City of Chicago and its Board of ...

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have ...

Recent investigations by WBEZ and the Weekly uncovered domestic violence allegations against interim police superintendent Fred Waller that prompted Karla Altmayer, the chair of the City’s task force ...

Armed National Guard and African American men standing on a sidewalk during the race riots in Chicago, Illinois, 1919. Chicago History Museum, CHM-i65478 Jun Fujita, photgrapher. Chicagoans are on ...

GardaWorld Federal Services, the company the City has hired to build and staff tent camps for asylum seekers, is a multinational security firm that has been contracted to run immigrant detention ...