By Beth Stewart Medill Reports The Chicago City Council’s first 2020 Public Safety Committee hearing on community police oversight brought together a panel of experts
By LaTesha Harris Medill Reports At Chicago’s first-ever cannabis resource fair earlier this month, Mayor Lori Lightfoot was confronted about her promise that the emerging
By Kari McMahon Medill Reports Out-of-state drivers for ride-hail services such as Uber and Lyft could be banned from driving in Chicago if 32nd Ward
By Anabel Mendoza Medill Reports A Chicago Immigration Court judge ruled in favor of releasing Francisco Silva, a 49-year-old man who was held in immigration
By Joel Jacobs Medill Reports Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced reforms to Chicago’s controversial Tax Increment Financing program (TIF) earlier this month, promising transparency and more
By Madhurita Goswami Medill Reports Moumita Chatterjee moved from India to Chicago with her husband nine years ago right after she graduated from college. Even
By Maura Turcotte Medill Reports At Project FIRE, artist Pearl Dick teaches students how to use glowing furnaces, scorched metal rods and molten glass to
By Kari McMahon Medill Reports On a recent journey downtown local Uber driver Matt collected a fare of $10 but said he only made $4
By Alison Saldanha Medill Reports More African Americans are out of school and out of work than among any other racial group in Chicago, according
By Whitney Tesi Medill Reports Middle Eastern and North African communities have been lobbying for their own category on the census for decades, even though