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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first time DePaul junior, Ariana Collazo heard of an Afro-Latina individual in school was last year during her Afro Caribbean class when Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat came to speak to ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X As a child, my family used to watch elected U.S. officials criticize authoritarian repression in ...