The district’s most vulnerable students often end up in alternative schools that are especially under-resourced to cope with the trauma of gun violence.
Perspectives
Public banking can help bridge the racial wealth gap in the post-pandemic recovery
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By using public money to create local funds, public banks can reverse decades of racist disinvestment to repair Black and Brown communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 recession.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Community oversight or control? Coalitions meet on competing police accountability proposals
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Both the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability and the Civilian Police Accountability Council campaigns want to maximize the community’s role in selecting public safety leaders.
Coronavirus
Forgotten: Stateville inmates warn of rising COVID-19 outbreak behind bars
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In letters and interviews, men inside the facility describe conditions they say are continuing to drive infections at the Illinois prison hardest hit by coronavirus.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Denying arrestees access to lawyers a longstanding problem at the Chicago Police Department
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A lawsuit became necessary after Mayor Lori Lightfoot failed to back an ordinance on the immediate right to legal counsel in police custody, a measure called for by her Police Accountability Task Force four years ago, advocates say.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police arrested more people for protesting than for looting in early days of unrest, contradicting original claims
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Just 20% of arrests during the first few days of protests over the killing of George Floyd were for looting-related crimes, new data shows, refuting earlier statements by CPD that looting accounted for the majority of arrests that weekend.
Housing
Activists Build Tent City To Show What Could Happen Without Affordable Housing Around Obama Library
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Attendees set up tents for an all-day protest at a vacant, city-owned lot. Community leaders from across the city called for affordable housing protections for Woodlawn that go beyond the city’s recent proposal.
Criminal Justice
Chicago has nearly tripled per capita police spending since 1964, data show
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Chicago is spending more on policing per person than at any time in the last half-century despite a persistent drop in crime over the last two decades, while the vast majority of murders remain unsolved.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police investigating 78 complaints of officers removing or covering badges during protests
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Superintendent David Brown declined to specify what would happen to officers caught engaging in the condemned practice.
Civilian Office of Police Accountability
Lightfoot says police officers who cover or remove name tag, badge number, should be fired
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Images and video show Chicago officers hiding identifying information during protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Coronavirus
ROUNDUP: An extraordinary week of uprising, racial discord and resilience as Chicago and Illinois begin to reopen
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Massive protests over the police killing of George Floyd engulfed the city, state and nation as local communities and businesses face a tougher road to recovery amid widespread looting and vandalism.