ICE agents arrested a community organizer and mother, Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda along with at least nine others in Chicago ...

s the National Guard and U.S. Marines take up posts in Los Angeles to respond to protests over the Trump administration’s ...

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: ...

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

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

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 ...

Rev. Robin Hood, who founded the Illinois Anti-Foreclosure Coalition, also helps seniors at a community level by holding town halls and meetings to educate residents on housing issues. His aunt was a ...

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 ...

This story was co-published in partnership with The TRiiBE. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the Southwest Side’s Ford City Mall and far South Side’s Evergreen Plaza were places where teenagers were ...

A senior Cook County Sheriff’s Office investigator has filed a lawsuit claiming she was illegally retaliated against after refusing to share certain information with superiors about a sweeping federal ...

Facing pressure from Republican legislators, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is considering draconian new restrictions on incoming mail and books, including banning all mail pending a ...