Prepare by organizing important documents, making a childcare plan, and remembering to exercise your right to remain silent.

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

Thousands in crisis get involuntarily hospitalized despite little evidence of effectiveness.

Thousands in crisis get involuntarily hospitalized despite little evidence of effectiveness.

A data broker that allows users to obtain information about incarcerated people could be a digital backdoor enabling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to access the personal data ...

Bryan Ramson poses for a portrait near his home on the West Side of Chicago. Credit: Akilah Townsend for Illinois Answers Project This story was produced in partnership with the Illinois Answers ...

At the corner of Ada and Taylor Streets, where the wind whips between century-old brick and modern glass, the grand opening of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) drew an eager assembly in April ...

Hundreds of nail holes pepper the dark-brown wood paneled walls of the repurposed 1920s brownstone. Each indentation serves as a kind of signature for every Black artist whose work has been exhibited ...

Last week, the Sun-Times announced buyouts for thirty employees representing about 20% of the paper’s staff. The departures include longtime political gossip columnist Michael Sneed, sportswriters ...

As the Trump administration has intensified immigration enforcement operations in Chicago and other major cities, thousands of individuals, including many without criminal records, have been detained ...

Immigrant organizations are working together to teach communities about their rights and operate a hotline for reporting ICE sightings. Credit: Collage from South Side Weekly’s archives It has been a ...

The Weekly is using pseudonyms for the people interviewed in this story. The bus ride to Wadsworth, a shuttered elementary school on the South Side, was another stop in a more than 4,000-mile journey ...