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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Black people are now incarcerated in the Cook County Jail at more than 17 times the rate of white ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 40 prospective candidates for judge presented their credentials to the Cook County Democratic committee on Thursday, seeking the party’s nomination for the June 2022 primary election. Each ...

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 ...

Soon after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took office in 2019, his administration elevated Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center on Chicago’s South Side as a model for how Illinois would serve abused foster ...

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 ...