Martinez Duncan and Jeremiah Bush were locked in a Cook County Jail cell on Tier 5A when the fire started in their cell. People jailed on the tier called for help. At 7:15pm, an officer responded to ...

Some days, the roaches are so bad in Nicole Rappaport’s unit that her daughters are scared to get out of bed during the night. Her sons go around stomping them, she says. Over the last several years, ...

When Angela Dugan founded South Side Tours, she wasn’t just launching a business—she was creating a moving oral history project on wheels. Since rolling out its first official tour in August 2024, ...

ShotSpotter sensors were still on the roof of a park building in Kenwood two weeks after the city’s contract with the company expired in September. Credit: Jim Daley This article was produced in ...

Chicago’s missing person crisis is a Black issue. City Bureau and the Invisible Institute recently released a two-year investigation into how Chicago police handle missing person cases that shows the ...

The exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art highlights early railworkers and boxcar camps that formed on the South Side in the 1900s. Co-curator Ismael Cuevas points to a model railroad set ...

This investigation is the first in a series of projects that will document and explore public housing on the South Side. If you have tips or suggestions about coverage, email ...

While anti-migrant sentiments have been expressed by many Chicagoans of different backgrounds, much media focus has been on the Black community’s historical tension with Latinx communities. However, ...

Ton Farm. Courtesy of the collection of Larry McClellan. The Underground Railroad was neither a railroad nor was it underground. It was a secret network led by people that included free Black and anti ...

Hundreds of nail holes pepper the dark-brown wood paneled walls of the repurposed 1920s brownstone. Each indentation serves as a kind of signature for every Black artist whose work has been exhibited ...

John Doe is a Black, male teenager from North Lawndale. He is in the Chicago Police Department (CPD)’s controversial gang affiliation database. He has a petty rap sheet, with four drug-related arrests ...

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have ...