Let’s be real—being a pastor these days is a lot more than preaching and potlucks. Thecountry’s so politically on edge that ...

Tactical teams in Illinois prisons are reportedly using abusive practices a decade after “Orange Crush” case Content warning: ...

Tactical teams in Illinois prisons are reportedly using abusive practices a decade after “Orange Crush” case Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse inside ...

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

You could feel excitement in the air, people’s faces flush with thrill and the chatter of voices ever present, as they filed into the conference room on the ground floor of Harold Washington College.

For South Side Environmental Justice Advocates, the Fight for the Hazel M. Johnson Ordinance is a Fight for their Home Myrna Salgado-Romo was already thinking about her next steps when she left high ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Dr. King and his wife Coretta at a third-floor walkup apartment in North Lawndale in Chicago in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X We have major problems in this country in how we think about and get appropriate government ...

Research shows that arrests for serious crimes are quite rare. Credit: Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images. My recent review of 50 years of national crime data confirms that, as police ...

Mercy Hospital plans to close in 2021. It's one of just three South Side hospitals that offer maternity services. Credit: Photo by Eric Allix Rogers In the past year, the number of hospitals offering ...

While unemployment rose to historic levels after whole sectors of the economy were shut down in an attempt to slow the coronavirus pandemic in March, Illinois failed to implement a program ⁠— enacted ...