Property taxes have increased every year in Illinois for the past three decades. For the 2026 budget season, legislators and ...

Justice-impacted Illinoisans face life-long barriers to employment, housing and education. “A different kind of lawyer” offers hope. At 54, Cynthia Cornelius had a packed resume. She’d worked in ...

Originally published on Prison Writers Jereme Clark describes the living conditions in the East Moline Correctional Center which he says has urine on the floors from leaky toilets, black mold ...

Originally published on Prison Writers Jereme Clark describes the living conditions in the East Moline Correctional Center ...

Activists and community members want clarity amid layoff announcements and budget analysis by Chicago Public Schools July is Disability Pride Month. This July, Chicago disability advocates have been ...

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract ...

An Illinois law known as a police “bill of rights” gives officers protections not enjoyed by average citizens. Advocates for police reform say the law makes it difficult to hold police accountable for ...

Chicago needs a change in anti-violence strategies. Gangs today are not so much the cause of violence as one of the effects of distressed communities. We need to switch our focus from targeting gangs ...

The Chicago Police Department has the weakest oversight in the country of officers working second jobs as private security guards, and the consequences can be both deadly and costly to taxpayers.

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.