Local climate justice activists are using community-run air sensors to track pollution and push residents to connect air quality with health. Yvette Piña began getting headaches after she moved to ...

When Jailene Ochoa’s family moved in 2017 from suburban Cicero to Gage Park in Chicago’s Southwest side, she could feel a difference in the air. “You can smell the air, obviously, and it smells like ...

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 ...

The Chicago Reporter analyzed CPS’s 2026 approved budget and found that local revenues are expected to grow more than state revenues despite pressure from advocates and board members to get more help ...

The Chicago Reporter analyzed CPS’s 2026 approved budget and found that local revenues are expected to grow more than state revenues despite pressure from advocates and board members to get more help ...

Critical Patriotism Can Save Our Democracy. Are We Too Late? “Christian Perry is a community organizer, leadership strategist, and political operative from the Southside of Chicago who currently ...

On an early August morning, I stood in a small gymnasium at Logan Correctional Center, a state-run women’s prison in southwestern Illinois. Standing shoulder to shoulder with 30 other volunteers, we ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jeffrey Smith was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated battery to a police officer, a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Kids at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center have been confined to their cells more ...

Illinois is among 14 states that has a police "bill of rights," a law that grants police special protections in criminal and other investigations. Credit: Photo by Grace Donnelly Even as violence ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After Carlil Pittman, 25, was expelled as a high school sophomore nearly a decade ago, he helped ...