Chicago’s ‘gun crackdown’ targets people seeking safety When Detaureo Harrington saw flashing police lights signaling him to pull over, he wasn’t worried about being arrested. After being arrested the ...

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Budgets Are Value Statements “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Mayor Brandon Johnson often quotes ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ald. Jason Ervin, who represents the 28th Ward on the West Side, is the chief sponsor of a new ...

Bilingual teacher Nancy Serrano provides support to English learners in her eighth-grade English language arts class at Hernández Middle School. Credit: Photo by Yingxu Jane Hao Two years ago, Chicago ...

The non-Hispanic white population is not growing as quickly as other groups in the U.S. Credit: Lightfield Studios/shutterstock.com Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the ...

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 ...