Artists on the South and West sides rely on free or subsidized community housing and the support of mission-driven arts ...

After hundreds of complaints, citations, and a class-action settlement, city inspectors’ notes show instances where MAT ...

Ante el aumento vertiginoso de los precios de la vivienda en un barrio en proceso de gentrificación, vivir en la casa ...

After implementing a contribute-what-you-can model last year, new and veteran artist make up a growing and diverse student ...

School board segregation panel chaired by Stuart Loory and anti-busing demonstration outside of Roberto Clemente High School, 1147 North Western Avenue Chicago, Illinois. Public school officials ...

Alderpersons want to decide on a ward-by-ward basis whether to keep ShotSpotter. We found sensors in thirty-five wards.

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 ...

Provided by Forrest Stuart, courtesy of MacArthur Foundation. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy by Stanford University sociologist Forrest Stuart is an essential ...

The White Sox are asking for a billion-dollar ballpark. But is it a good deal for the South Side? Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf wants to move the team from its current park (pictured) to a new location, ...

Despite the simplicity of Chicago’s famous grid system, designed for flat land and seemingly equitable on a map, residents of Chicago have never been equally dispersed or had the same freedom of ...

Historians and activists push to recognize the history of Underground Railroad stops and guides in the south suburbs.