If the snap curfew proposal passes, CPD could declare emergency curfews for minors without prior approval from the mayor, City Council, or police district councils. The potential for harm is enormous: ...

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 ...

A report by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) that said officers respond more quickly to ShotSpotter alerts than 911 calls doesn’t make a convincing argument for keeping the technology, according to ...

On Monday, the City Council Committee on Police & Fire advanced an ordinance that would place the decision to keep ShotSpotter at the ward level, with individual alderpersons choosing whether or not ...

In one incident, ShotSpotter missed a 55-round shooting that left two men critically wounded. In internal emails, company executives told each other they couldn’t tell the City broken sensors were the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the evening of June 3, a video began circulating on Twitter of a group of men walking around a blocked intersection in Bridgeport. As the armed men, wielding baseball bats, pipes, and other ...

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 ...