White Sox season remains a wild ride, to the very end of the American League Division Series (ALDS). After a pair of ...

After beating the Houston Astros in the Wild Card Series, the team was impressive in their win against the Cleveland ...

DJ Hustlenomics is a presence that most people only experience once. He’s a recluse at times, very calculated, and as multifaceted as they come, with varying interests in music, technology, fashion, ...

One jail worker shares what it’s like to work while incarcerated, from cleaning up flooded cells to doing laundry. Illustration by Harley Pomper, based on a provided photo of Saint and his daughter.

T here’s been a tavern of some sort at 3238 S. Halsted for nearly a century, but the version of Bernice’s that Bridgeporters and South Siders from all over have come to know a ...

CCJS shows up outside the jail to help anybody and everybody being released late at night get home safe and start reintegrating.

Chicago’s two-to-four-flats are disappearing across the city as single-family homes and vacant lots are popping up in their place. A-two flat in the Bridgeport neighborhood that has been converted ...

Across Chicago, safety-net hospitals (SNHs)—medical centers that provide healthcare for individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay—are facing an uncertain future as the ...

During the summer of 1997 my family moved from Gage Park to the Scottsdale neighborhood on Chicago’s far Southwest Side. Twenty years before my family became one of the first Mexican families on the ...

Ton Farm. Courtesy of the collection of Larry McClellan. The Underground Railroad was neither a railroad nor was it underground. It was a secret network led by people that included free Black and anti ...

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing. The 150-unit apartment building at 7500 S ...

Children playing outside the Ida B. Wells Homes before their demolition. Photo by Patricia Evans. This is post 2 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” The City of Chicago and its Board of ...