At its current pace, the city’s project to replace lead water lines in Chicago’s Southside neighborhoods could take two centuries. Researchers at Northwestern University and community activists are ...

Sara Cooper, a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, joined TCR’s newsroom team in June. Her investigative reporting will enhance TCR’s coverage of environmental ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality ...

At its current pace, the city’s project to replace lead water lines in Chicago’s Southside neighborhoods could take two centuries. Researchers at Northwestern University and community activists are ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. CHICAGO — LaShon Minter Williams is waiting for a letter that could arrive any day now — one that may force her to leave the home ...

If you are an idiot, or drunk or otherwise impaired, you might shoot a deer 16 times. Then if Game and Wildlife, have a problem with that, they have to “prove” it. The officer in St..Louis was ...

The biggest controversy of Rahm Emanuel’s first year as mayor was caused by his decision to close six of the city’s twelve mental health clinics. For months, protestors from the Mental Health Movement ...

When paramedics arrived, Jesse Bogan was still handcuffed to the wall, blood spurting from three gaping wounds in his left foot. A German Shepherd named Demon had bitten through his sneaker and held ...

The future of whiteness The aging white population, alongside a more youthful minority population, especially in the case of Latinos, will result in the U.S. becoming a majority-minority country in ...

King did not seek out to lead the bus boycott in Montgomery, where he had lived for barely a year before Rosa Parks’ arrest. In fact, he was tapped by city elders precisely because he was new in town ...

But that progress isn’t happening equally. Discipline rates fell more quickly for white students than black students, making existing disparities worse. An analysis by The Chicago Reporter shows that ...