The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. On ...

Expanding earned credits could improve rehabilitation, reduce overcrowding, and support correctional staff wellness. When Ray Guerica received his “out date,” an estimated date when his prison ...

Prison reform advocates in Illinois are backing a law that would roll back truth-in-sentencing and reduce prison time for ...

For the second straight primary season, more than half the races for Cook County circuit judge on the March 17 ballot are uncontested, with just 45 candidates vying for 28 open seats. On paper, Cook ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference announcing the findings of the Justice Department’s yearlong civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department on Jan. 13, 2017, flanked by ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...

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 ...

Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, held about 1,750 female inmates as of July 2018. Credit: Photo by Bill Healy During her twenty years in an Illinois prison, Monica Cosby received ...

Overton Elementary School was one of 50 Chicago public schools closed in 2013. It has since been sold. Credit: Photo by Max Herman The Chicago Reporter is tracking the status of the public schools ...

Quaid Stephens, 44, has nine job training certificates, but has had a hard time finding a job because of his criminal record. His story is not unusual in many West Side communities where unemployment ...