Education
As school discipline disparities worsen, Illinois has yet to require reforms
The state has stalled on requiring school districts with the highest suspension and expulsion rates to improve.
Criminal Justice
Meet the nine teams that want to monitor the Chicago Police consent decree
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State and city officials will choose an independent monitor that will have authority over the expensive, years-long effort to reform CPD.
Criminal Justice
Prostitution-loitering law likely to target women of color for arrest
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Chicago police have a record of arresting women for selling sex rather than men for buying it. A new ordinance borrows from anti-loitering measures that target black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Investigations
Housing
Few Puerto Rican evacuees in Chicago have benefited from FEMA shelter program
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, critics say poor administration hampered the Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) program in Illinois, creating confusion and missed opportunities for survivors looking for housing.
Criminal Justice
Solitary confinement of juveniles on the rise in Cook County
As other cities and states have moved to ban using solitary confinement as punishment for teens, the practice has increased at one of the largest juvenile jails in the country.
Criminal Justice
U. of C. police shooting came at time of increased stops, continued disparities
In the months before the off-campus shooting of student Charles Thomas, University of Chicago police sharply stepped-up proactive stops, overwhelmingly targeting people of color, our analysis shows.
Criminal Justice
More African-Americans apply to become cops, but few make it to finish line
Although the police department is pushing to diversify, it’s hiring whites and Latinos at rates more than double that of blacks, analysis shows.