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, ...

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 ...

More than seven months after federal immigration agents raided a South Shore apartment complex in the middle of the night, 17 victims, including six children and two U.S. citizens, have filed federal ...

The White Sox are asking for a billion-dollar ballpark. But is it a good deal for the South Side? Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf wants to move the team from its current park (pictured) to a new location, ...

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 ...

Children line up to play tennis at New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church's indoor tennis court, while Coach Tyrone Mason tosses the young athletes tennis balls. (Photo by Caeli Kean / South Side ...

so i left it. there. and slammed my car door closed with my butt and went inside. yesterday. i happened to park in the same spot. mind you, it’s March. the can of pineapple juice was flat as Florida ...

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 ...

In 2011, when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed a budget that closed half of the public mental health clinics in Chicago, City Council passed it unanimously. Less than a decade later, a progressive ...

Nate Marshall is a published writer and educator, among many things. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago in West Pullman, Marshall is the author of Finna, his latest book of poems ...

This story was co-published in collaboration with WIRED. When mayor Brandon Johnson announced in February that Chicago would stop using the gunshot-detection system known as ShotSpotter by year’s end, ...