Property taxes have increased every year in Illinois for the past three decades. For the 2026 budget season, legislators and ...

Justice-impacted Illinoisans face life-long barriers to employment, housing and education. “A different kind of lawyer” offers hope. At 54, Cynthia Cornelius had a packed resume. She’d worked in ...

Originally published on Prison Writers Jereme Clark describes the living conditions in the East Moline Correctional Center which he says has urine on the floors from leaky toilets, black mold ...

Originally published on Prison Writers Jereme Clark describes the living conditions in the East Moline Correctional Center ...

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 ...

An Illinois law known as a police “bill of rights” gives officers protections not enjoyed by average citizens. Advocates for police reform say the law makes it difficult to hold police accountable for ...

City officials' responses to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald expose systemic failures in police accountability.

Chicago needs a change in anti-violence strategies. Gangs today are not so much the cause of violence as one of the effects of distressed communities. We need to switch our focus from targeting gangs ...

Joyce Edwards’ family was forced to move from their Wells Street home to make way for the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the late 1950s. Edwards now will have to leave her home in ...