In Illinois, more than 3.3 million people live with an arrest or a conviction on their record. A legal justice record of any ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

“This bank is just what the freedmen need,” remarked President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865, as he signed the Freedman’s Bank Act, authorizing the organization of a national bank for recently ...

Teacher Ben Gunty describes how to find supporting evidence in texts during a freshman multicultural studies class at the original Noble Street campus in West Town. The school routinely posts some of ...

In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly Center, which rents space to local churches and Neighbor2Neighbor, a nonprofit that serves food to the ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

The non-Hispanic white population is not growing as quickly as other groups in the U.S. Credit: Lightfield Studios/shutterstock.com Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the ...

Community Peacekeepers say reducing shootings means confronting poverty, trauma and instability in the neighborhoods most impacted by violence. Fifteen miles south of the Magnificent Mile, Roseland’s ...

Ian Haney- López, a constitutional law scholar, discusses his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics,” at the University of Chicago in November 2014. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago ...

Bilingual teacher Nancy Serrano provides support to English learners in her eighth-grade English language arts class at Hernández Middle School. Credit: Photo by Yingxu Jane Hao Two years ago, Chicago ...