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O n Tuesday, President Donald Trump escalated his threats against Chicago, declaring “we’re going in” and signaling plans to ...

This investigation is the first in a series of projects that will document and explore public housing on the South Side. If you have tips or suggestions about coverage, email ...

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 ...

For four decades, a row of towers on the South Side competed with Chicago’s famous skyline. The Robert Taylor Homes, encompassing twenty-eight structures, each sixteen stories high, stretched for two ...

The immigrant enclave was once isolated and excluded from city politics. How did Chicago Chinatown’s community leaders transform the neighborhood? Chinatown residents celebrated Chinese New Year in a ...

With the Obama Presidential Center proposed for Jackson Park, the University of Chicago’s continuing development along 61st Street, and a myriad of other projects large and small, residents are asking ...

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 ...

Ton Farm. Courtesy of the collection of Larry McClellan. The Underground Railroad was neither a railroad nor was it underground. It was a secret network led by people that included free Black and anti ...

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us is a collection of essays and interviews that explore the abolition of police and the prison industrial complex (PIC) and the power of transformative justice, written by and ...

With a zig-zag boundary that includes parts of the South Loop, Bronzeville, Kenwood, and northern Hyde Park, the 4th Ward launched the career of a young Toni Preckwinkle. Before becoming president of ...