Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but ...

Local climate justice activists are using community-run air sensors to track pollution and push residents to connect air quality with health. Yvette Piña began getting headaches after she moved to ...

When Jailene Ochoa’s family moved in 2017 from suburban Cicero to Gage Park in Chicago’s Southwest side, she could feel a difference in the air. “You can smell the air, obviously, and it smells like ...

The Chicago Reporter analyzed CPS’s 2026 approved budget and found that local revenues are expected to grow more than state revenues despite pressure from advocates and board members to get more help ...

The Chicago Reporter analyzed CPS’s 2026 approved budget and found that local revenues are expected to grow more than state revenues despite pressure from advocates and board members to get more help ...

Critical Patriotism Can Save Our Democracy. Are We Too Late? “Christian Perry is a community organizer, leadership strategist, and political operative from the Southside of Chicago who currently ...

Chicago needs a change in anti-violence strategies. Gangs today are not so much the cause of violence as one of the effects of distressed communities. We need to switch our focus from targeting gangs ...

Illinois is among 14 states that has a police "bill of rights," a law that grants police special protections in criminal and other investigations. Credit: Photo by Grace Donnelly Even as violence ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...

At 11 p.m. on September 7, 2013, Chicago Police Officer Kenneth Walker went from his regular nine-hour shift to his second job as a security guard at a West Side public housing complex. Walker had ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Joyce Edwards is one of the last few holdouts in a section of Englewood taken over by a rail yard ...