Community Peacekeepers say reducing shootings means confronting poverty, trauma and instability in the neighborhoods most ...

As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to ...

Content warning: This story contains references to domestic violence and physical abuse. When a survivor of domestic violence escapes an abusive situation, their journey is only beginning. Physical ...

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 Cook County Jail’s new Special Management Unit, incarcerated individuals who were allegedly violent in jail are shackled to tables in a dayroom during a group activity as an alternative to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...

At first glance, two-year-old Jedi Ruzicka is not only unassuming but, also frankly, adorable. Jedi has plump cheeks and a dimple on his chin. His ears protrude slightly, giving him an almost ...

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 ...