A clause in the county’s contract lets an information system designed for crime victims funnel sensitive data to ICE-contracted LexisNexis.

A recap of select open meetings at the local, county, and state level. Produced in partnership with City Bureau’s Documenters. At its meeting, the Metra Board of Directors looked toward the future as ...

S ummer on the South Side peaks with the annual tradition known as the Bud Billiken Parade, which marks the upcoming ...

The Bud Billiken Parade, a South Side tradition since 1929, took place this past weekend.

With the elimination of the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program July 1, some local organizations say they have taken ...

This story was copublished by Invisible Institute and the Chicago Reader. Illustration by Injustice Watch. John Poulos’s past might have prevented him from being hired by the Chicago Police Department ...

Chicago’s mental health crisis teams were meant to replace police with clinicians. Bureaucratic dysfunction and fading federal support now threaten their survival.

Artists on the South and West sides rely on free or subsidized community housing and the support of mission-driven arts organizations to maintain their art practices.

On June 4, ICE agents arrested a community organizer and mother, Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda along with at least nine others in Chicago’s South Loop. A petition urging her release has drawn over ...

The causes and solutions to gun violence are difficult to quantify—or control. One thing is clear: gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Organizers in the hardest-hit communities ...

At the corner of Ada and Taylor Streets, where the wind whips between century-old brick and modern glass, the grand opening of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) drew an eager assembly in April ...

This story was co-published in partnership with The TRiiBE. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the Southwest Side’s Ford City Mall and far South Side’s Evergreen Plaza were places where teenagers were ...