By 1975, 80,000 Black Catholics lived in Chicago — the second-largest Black Catholic community in the country, higher than New Orleans, and only second to a Louisiana county.

Black people live different lives than other Americans, and Black communities occupy alternate realities. It’s like a real-life multiverse where the laws of physics shift when you visit an ...

It’s also one of only 26 Chicago schools — out of 647 — that are majority white, according to CPS data. Wildwood has long had a small Black population. Today, there are only 20 Black ...

From the FBI's Universal Crime Report in 2014; 90% of Black people killed were killed by other Black people and 14.8% of white people killed were killed by Black people.

The U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson touted the number of Black officials in his administration.