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 ...

At its meeting, the Chicago Public Schools Chicago Board of Education voted 19-0 (with one abstention) to approve a teachers contract through June 2028. The contract is worth $1.5 billion over four ...

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 ...

Hundreds of nail holes pepper the dark-brown wood paneled walls of the repurposed 1920s brownstone. Each indentation serves as a kind of signature for every Black artist whose work has been exhibited ...

The Weekly is using pseudonyms for the people interviewed in this story. The bus ride to Wadsworth, a shuttered elementary school on the South Side, was another stop in a more than 4,000-mile journey ...