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Are CPS staff layoffs promoting equity in schools?

In July, CPS claimed the mass layoff of special education staff was an equity-driven reset, and not a means to address the ...
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Border Patrol is back in Chicago. So are the strategies that stop them.

With Commander Gregory Bovino back in the region, Chicago activists draw on hard-won lessons to shield immigrants from ...
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Second Amendment? Not for Black Chicago Drivers

When Detaureo Harrington saw flashing police lights signaling him to pull over, he wasn’t worried about being arrested. After being arrested the year before in June 2022 on a gun possession charge, ...
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SNAP Changes, and the Nonprofits Helping Residents Meet Work Requirements

With Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits delayed and reduced due to the government shutdown, and major changes to work requirements on the horizon, food insecurity is top of mind ...
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Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Illustration by Verónica Martinez This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom ...
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What else could be on the table for Illinois property tax reform?

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X TCR spoke to fiscal, education and policy experts to understand options that go from creating new ...
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An invisible threat: How many more decades of lead pipes can Chicagoans handle?

Homeowners may be notified with letters like this from the Chicago Department of Water Management if lead service lines are found during routine maintenance or construction. It can be difficult to ...
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Spotlighting Our Hero: Lamenta Conway M.D, MPH

The Community Hero Spotlight program is a consortium of media partners highlighting ordinary people who are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of others and community. The Chicago ...
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Winthrop Family and Black Resilience on the North Side of Chicago

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Over the last few years, we have been learning from members of the Winthrop Avenue Family, who ...
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‘It’s really a revolution’: Ja’Mal Green on protests taking over Chicago and the nation and what’s next for the movement

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Community advocate Ja’Mal Green has been protesting across the city following the police killing ...
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‘Green gentrification’ and lessons of the 606

Aldermen representing the area around the 606 Trail won a six-month freeze in demolition permits this month, hoping to use the time to devise strategies to reduce pressures causing the displacement of ...