This project was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune As a fledgling tech contractor looking to build its ...

In their end-of-session dash to pass a state budget, Illinois lawmakers put off consideration of proposed reforms to property ...

An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ram, it wasn’t because she had committed a crime or had a warrant issued for her arrest. It ...

The illustration above was inspired by a scene from a 2019 protest in which Chicago FOP President John Catanzara waved the pro-police “thin blue line” flag outside the George W. Dunne Cook County ...

When he announced his candidacy for Cook County judge, Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos touted the opportunity to “continue my public service, which spans 23 years.” It’s a career mired in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Paul Borik, 91, a retired Chicago Park District gardner, enjoys his plants at his North suburban ...

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This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

Over the last two decades, Chicago’s political leaders have spent tens of millions on attempts to treat children arrested by police more like children and less like a public safety menace. It is part ...

This story is published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Sign up for one of their newsletters here. Earlier this August, a traffic stop left a beloved police ...