Activists and community members want clarity amid layoff announcements and budget analysis by Chicago Public Schools July is Disability Pride Month. This July, Chicago disability advocates have been ...

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system ...

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract ...

On December 18, 2024, Aaron Jones stands by the ditch that floods with sewage during heavy rainfall. He thinks if Carterville replaced its wastewater treatment plant, the overflows into his ditch ...

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, ...

Homeowners may be notified with letters like this from the Chicago Department of Water Management if lead service lines are found during routine maintenance or construction. It can be difficult to ...

Last month, Brandon Johnson and five Alders introduced the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance, which aims to address the disproportionate environmental burdens on Chicago’s South and Southside ...

The Community Hero Spotlight program is a consortium of media partners highlighting ordinary people who are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of others and community. The Chicago ...

Elevate, a Chicago-based nonprofit, continues its work to deliver lead-free water to children in underserved communities. The organization tackles elevated lead levels in municipal drinking water with ...

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 ...