After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system ...

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract ...

Aaron Jones was walking his land in Carterville with a prospective homebuyer five years ago when he said he saw the ditch that runs alongside his property was filled with human feces. “It looked like ...

Gina Lamar Evans talks about sex for a living—and why awareness is Chicago’s best defense against HIV   In a city with ...

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 ...

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

Both Chicago and Kansas City carried out mass school closures in poor, black neighborhoods, but they had vastly different approaches to repurposing them.

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 ...

Thousands of defendants spend days, weeks and even months in Cook County’s criminal courts each year on low-level charges. Odds are that their cases will be dismissed.

Better training could help police officers avoid interactions that could have a lasting negative impact on children’s development.

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 ...