As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to ...

As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to ...

Humboldt Park, a bustling cultural hub on Chicago’s West Side, has been the heart of the city’s Puerto Rican community for ...

As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to explore the theme “justice” through their camera lens. Submit a photo entry by ...

As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to explore the theme “justice” through their camera lens. Submit a photo entry by ...

In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly Center, which rents space to local churches and Neighbor2Neighbor, a nonprofit that serves food to the ...

In Cook County Jail’s new Special Management Unit, incarcerated individuals who were allegedly violent in jail are shackled to tables in a dayroom during a group activity as an alternative to ...

Bilingual teacher Nancy Serrano provides support to English learners in her eighth-grade English language arts class at Hernández Middle School. Credit: Photo by Yingxu Jane Hao Two years ago, Chicago ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

Overton Elementary School was one of 50 Chicago public schools closed in 2013. It has since been sold. Credit: Photo by Max Herman The Chicago Reporter is tracking the status of the public schools ...

The Dominick's at 2011 E 71st in the South Shore neighborhood has been closed since 2013. Despite efforts by the city and community groups, a new grocer has yet to move into the location. Credit: ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...