Race and Culture
In Kenwood, black picket fences
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Black middle-class families are drawn to South Side neighborhoods like Kenwood, but the city’s long history of segregation casts a shadow on their quality of life.
Criminal Justice
Widespread discontent, out-of-state dollars helped defeat Alvarez
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Kim Foxx won votes across race and class lines in Cook County, drawing on push for police reform.
Criminal Justice
Police accountability takes center stage in Cook County State’s Attorney race
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The March 15 Democratic primary could be a referendum on Anita Alvarez’s handling of officer-involved shootings and send a message to prosecutors across the country.
Black middle-class
Living in the cross hairs of gun violence
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Chicago’s black middle-class can’t escape the city’s social problems, including its crime.
The new treatment center
Mentally ill behind bars
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This map is a snapshot of home addresses, by ZIP code, of Cook County Jail detainees who self-identified as living with mental illness on Jan. 29, 2015.
The new treatment center
Room for a new life
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Program offers stability and independence for people with mental illness.
The new treatment center
Guilty of mental illness
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Alex Bailey has cycled in and out of Cook County Jail his entire adulthood. His life shows how mental illness has been criminalized, especially for black men.
Criminal Justice
To honor shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton, we need more than a park
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A much better way to honor Hadiya would be to stop the shootings in the North Kenwood neighborhood where she was shot—and end gun violence in other communities across the city. Renaming a playlot just doesn’t seem good enough.
Editor's Blog
When Chicago elected its first black mayor
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Managing editor Deborah L. Shelton relives her generation’s Obama Moment.
Criminal Justice
A laundry list of lynchings
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Lynching in the South in the last century was worse than previously reported, according to new research. A major Chicago daily once kept an annual tally.