Partnerships were terminated after students organized a walkout to share grievances over the deaths of three students this ...

Chicago launched an ambitious plan to keep residents from getting displaced as speculators swooped in, but some projects ...

llinois lawmakers approved the state budget early Monday morning after slogging through the night, enacting new taxes on ...

SECAs—special education classroom assistants—will now be able to request to attend meetings to discuss student needs and progress thanks to a new contract. Photo provided by SEIU Local 73. Jerry, a ...

Carl Sandburg’s poem, “Chicago,” introduces the City of the Big Shoulders while subverting the growing industrial powerhouse’s uglier sides by highlighting the city’s boldness, cunning, and ferocity.

A petition is calling for Lyons, Illinois resident Abel Orozco’s right to due process after advocates say he was unlawfully arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in January near ...

On the afternoon of November 6, Ricardo Cruz, nineteen, and his mother drove to the Citgo gas station on the corner of 63rd Street and California Avenue to pump air in their truck’s tire. Before they ...

llinois lawmakers approved the state budget early Monday morning after slogging through the night, enacting new taxes on businesses and authorizing less spending than what Governor JB Pritzker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some opposition to the pedestrian and cyclist safety improvements have been coordinated by the politically connected pro-charter school Urban Center and attempts to unseat the local alder and mayor. A ...

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 ...