Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

Written inside Dixon Correctional Center, The Story of Violence is one of more than 15 original works created by a dozen men ...

Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas ...

Written inside Dixon Correctional Center, The Story of Violence is one of more than 15 original works created by a dozen men who were part of the Dixon Performing Arts program. A play written by men ...

Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, held about 1,750 female inmates as of July 2018. Credit: Photo by Bill Healy During her twenty years in an Illinois prison, Monica Cosby received ...

In Cook County Jail’s new Special Management Unit, incarcerated individuals who were allegedly violent in jail are shackled to tables in a dayroom during a group activity as an alternative to ...

Bilingual teacher Nancy Serrano provides support to English learners in her eighth-grade English language arts class at Hernández Middle School. Credit: Photo by Yingxu Jane Hao Two years ago, Chicago ...

Ian Haney- López, a constitutional law scholar, discusses his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics,” at the University of Chicago in November 2014. Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago ...

In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly Center, which rents space to local churches and Neighbor2Neighbor, a nonprofit that serves food to the ...

On a humid Friday in August 1995, Henry Cisneros stood on a makeshift dais on a crumbling basketball court in the Henry Horner Homes on Chicago’s Near West Side. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Horner Local ...

Teacher Ben Gunty describes how to find supporting evidence in texts during a freshman multicultural studies class at the original Noble Street campus in West Town. The school routinely posts some of ...

As much as his life is worthy of honor and celebration, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely would have had a hard time during the recent searching examination of gender inequities prompted by the ...