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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...