This content is made possible through TCR’s Student Voices series, made possible through our partnership with Truman College and the Uptown Exchange. The assassination of conservative activist Charlie ...

Chicago nonprofits are helping SNAP recipients navigate new work requirements and access volunteer opportunities, meals, and other essential services amid federal benefit changes. Confusion Amid SNAP ...

When video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald finally surfaced in November 2015, ...

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

Nearly sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a stark warning: “We must face the hard fact that many Americans would like to have a nation which is a democracy for white Americans, but ...

Leonard Dixon, who has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center for a decade, has property in Michigan and Florida, and current and former employees say he’s rarely seen at the facility ...

Jereme Carter describes the living conditions in the East Moline Correctional Center which he says has urine on the floors from leaky toilets, black mold everywhere and correctional staff who hate ...

The City of Chicago is searching for financial solutions amidst hundreds of pending police misconduct cases, spending more than double the $82 million budget. Eight years ago, police burst down the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X At first glance, two-year-old Jedi Ruzicka is not only unassuming but, also frankly, adorable.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Cook County residents experience high financial stress at more than twice the national rate, a new ...

Katie Schulder-Battis is a Chicago Reporter contributor and student at Northwestern University. This content is made possible through partnership with the Chicago Reporter and the Graduate Science ...