The dismantling of BET+ and what It means when Black America loses control of its own story Last Friday, Paramount confirmed what many of us feared was coming: BET+, the standalone streaming service ...

The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. On light poles from Hegewisch to Humboldt Park, a new network of air quality ...

The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. March 14: A statement about how air quality data can be used to identify ...

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 ...

Joyce Edwards is one of the last few holdouts in a section of Englewood taken over by a rail yard expansion by Norfolk Southern. She’s taking the company to court seeking fair compensation for her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clyde Ross "bought" his North Lawndale home on contract in 1961. He was able to keep it after joining the Contract Buyers League, which fought for legitimate mortgages by staging a payment strike.

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 ...

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 ...