David Eads will build on the Reporter’s dogged legacy of investigating race, poverty, and income inequality by creating journalism experiences that are accessible and actionable for the public.
The founder's retrospective
Well, since you asked …
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I’m often asked — by friends, television hosts, people I’ve just met — whether Chicago’s public schools have gotten any better after decades of reform. I know they’d like a simple yes or no, but I find neither satisfying. Rather, it’s been more like yes and no, or two steps forward, one step back.
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.
Publisher's Note
Same mission, different platform
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After 43 years as a print publication, The Chicago Reporter will focus its reporting about race, poverty and income inequality online.
Criminal Justice
Police reform law doesn’t fill all accountability gaps
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Legislation from Springfield mandates new requirements for Chicago officers, but debate over policing continues unabated.
Editor's blog
Police shooting video highlights importance of accountability
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The video of a Chicago police officer shooting into a car of unarmed black teenagers scratches the surface of deep problems with policing.
From the Editor
Public Ed fund, private role: analysis
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The Chicago Public Education Fund supports projects meant to be scaled up as part of the school system. In recent years, it has also paid consultants to conduct searches for top district staff and to help develop plans for the district. Its board includes some of the richest and most influential people in the city. No one outside The Fund’s staff and board of directors know how it decides which programs to support, what the results have been and how or whether the results are communicated to CPS.
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.
From the Editor
Another step for free college
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With support from the non-profit OneGoal and a lot of hard work and long days during high school, Breyana Floyd made it from her rough Austin neighborhood to quiet Monmouth College, a tiny liberal arts school in western Illinois. Reading her story, you hope and pray she makes it to senior year and graduation. If she does, Breyana will become an all-too-rare success story.
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.