Aaron Jones was walking his land in Carterville with a prospective homebuyer five years ago when he said he saw the ditch ...

Gina Lamar Evans talks about sex for a living—and why awareness is Chicago’s best defense against HIV   In a city with abundant medical resources, the one of the greatest barriers to public health is ...

Beneath the shadow of the bustling overpass on Chicago’s Near West Side, where Desplaines Street meets Hubbard, is an ...

Beneath the shadow of the bustling overpass on Chicago’s Near West Side, where Desplaines Street meets Hubbard, is an informal encampment residents call the “Chocolate Factory.” Jeremy Holomshek, ...

The City of Chicago is searching for financial solutions amidst hundreds of pending police misconduct cases, spending more ...

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

We are enamored with films that depict migrants coming to America on sea who are welcomed by the sight of the Statue of Liberty and the comfortability of the New York shores. As I watch ICE bang on a ...

Cook County residents experience high financial stress at more than twice the national rate, a new study by Financial Health Network finds. Published in January, the study looked at eight measures of ...

In the late 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his nonviolent revolution to Chicago. Invited by the Chicago Freedom Movement, Dr. King joined dozens of civil rights organizations demanding ...

Despite the disproportionate number of Blacks killed unjustly at the hands of police and the growing Black Lives Matter movement of 2014 after the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner ...

Anticonquista Café not only roasts their coffee here in Chicago, but harvests it from the high mountains of Guatemala. In mid-March, the owners of Anticonquista Café — Elmer Farado and his wife Lauren ...

On July 21, the Chicago City Council officially rezoned the Weiss Hospital parking lot on 4600 Marine Drive from medical to residential use. Submitted by Lincoln Properties, and championed by the 46th ...