TCR spoke to fiscal, education and policy experts to understand options that go from creating new revenue sources from scratch to reforming existing ones Property taxes are a recurring topic in ...

Local climate justice activists are using community-run air sensors to track pollution and push residents to connect air ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but ...

Ten minutes – for some in a mental health crisis, that’s all the time it may take to decide to end their life. Caught in a state of tunnel-vision and unable to make rational decisions, suicide can ...

Ten minutes – for some in a mental health crisis, that’s all the time it may take to decide to end their life. Caught in a state of tunnel-vision and unable to make rational decisions, suicide can ...

Our mission is national but grounded in Chicago, one of the most segregated cities in the nation and a bellwether for urban policies.

Local climate justice activists are using community-run air sensors to track pollution and push residents to connect air quality with health. Yvette Piña began getting headaches after she moved to ...

Critical Patriotism Can Save Our Democracy. Are We Too Late? Christian Perry is a community organizer, leadership strategist, and political operative from the Southside of Chicago who currently serves ...

Local climate justice activists are using community-run air sensors to track pollution and push residents to connect air quality with health. Yvette Piña began getting headaches after she moved to ...

Critical Patriotism Can Save Our Democracy. Are We Too Late? “Christian Perry is a community organizer, leadership strategist ...

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 ...