Federal agents killed a man during a traffic stop amid widespread sweeps that unfolded during the Mexican Independence Day ...

An artist and poet, Bryant remembers the Little Italy open air market from the 1960s, which at that point had been a fixture ...

Project Onward’s exhibition “Poor Man’s Paradise” is an homage to the historic open air market.

Prepare by organizing important documents, making a childcare plan, and remembering to exercise your right to remain silent.

This investigation is the first in a series of projects that will document and explore public housing on the South Side. If you have tips or suggestions about coverage, email ...

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us is a collection of essays and interviews that explore the abolition of police and the prison industrial complex (PIC) and the power of transformative justice, written by and ...

Children playing outside the Ida B. Wells Homes before their demolition. Photo by Patricia Evans. This is post 2 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” The City of Chicago and its Board of ...

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have ...

For four decades, a row of towers on the South Side competed with Chicago’s famous skyline. The Robert Taylor Homes, encompassing twenty-eight structures, each sixteen stories high, stretched for two ...

The White Sox are asking for a billion-dollar ballpark. But is it a good deal for the South Side? Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf wants to move the team from its current park (pictured) to a new location, ...

Chicago's Rainbow Coalition. Photo courtesy of Cha-Cha Jimenez. Chicago-style coalition-building helped to produce the first Black mayor of Chicago and put its first Latinx representatives in office.