Perspectives
Lower refugee limits are weakening resettlement in the US
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Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
Economic Development
Obama Center Watch: A federal review, a push for a community benefits agreement, and a lawsuit appeal
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Here’s everything you need to know about the latest developments and challenges to the Obama Presidential Center.
Perspectives
The long, bipartisan history of dealing with immigrants harshly
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Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Perspectives
Detaining refugee children at military bases may sound un-American, but it’s been done before
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Fort Sill, a military base in Oklahoma, will soon house 1,400 Central American children, the Trump administration says. It’s not the first time the US has used army bases to house refugees.
Perspectives
Breaking myths about black fatherhood this Father’s Day
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The inaccurate perception that African American families are devastated by absent fathers that need to return to their responsibilities informs policy and law formulation in a variety of harmful ways.
Economic Development
Obama Presidential Center can begin construction in Jackson Park, judge rules
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Protect Our Parks, which had sued to stop construction of the presidential center in Jackson Park, has said it will appeal the ruling.
Economic Development
Everything you need to know about the Obama Presidential Center lawsuit
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Next week, a judge is expected to decide the fate of a project that could alter the South Side forever in limitless ways.
Government and Politics
Police in Illinois will permanently have to record race, other traffic stop data in new bill
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The Illinois Traffic Stop Study — launched 15 years ago under legislation sponsored by then-State Sen. Barack Obama — would have ended on June 30.
Perspectives
Will Chicago’s mayoral runoff signal the end of the ‘rainbow’ coalition?
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With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.
Perspectives
Rasmea Odeh, deported but not defeated
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Pushed out of both Palestine and her adopted home in Chicago, the longtime activist starts over in Jordan after a lifetime of experiencing displacement.