Chicago nonprofits are helping SNAP recipients navigate new work requirements and access volunteer opportunities, meals, and other essential services amid federal benefit changes. Confusion Amid SNAP ...

This content is made possible through TCR’s Student Voices series, made possible through our partnership with Truman College and the Uptown Exchange. The assassination of conservative activist Charlie ...

When video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald finally surfaced in November 2015, ...

Perspectives on Power, Politics, and Progress in Chicago Nearly sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a stark ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. 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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly ...

Ken Sanders, a junior at West Side Leadership Academy in Gary, Ind., moved with his family from Chicago in 2013. Credit: Photo by Michelle Kanaar When Chicago Public Schools announced plans to close ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, held about 1,750 female inmates as of July 2018.

Chicago becomes official with its first city charter. The Chicago Teachers Federation (CTF) is formed to advocate on behalf of teachers. It would become the Chicago Teachers Union 40 years later.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Kids at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center have been confined to their cells more ...

As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...