When video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald finally surfaced in November 2015, ...

Perspectives on Power, Politics, and Progress in Chicago Nearly sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a stark ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality ...

Founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, The Chicago Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. Our mission is national but ...

New SNAP work requirements in Illinois could leave hundreds of thousands without benefits, strain food pantries, and increase food insecurity, affecting families and children across local communities.

Inside The Loop with Christian Perry: Perspectives on Power, Politics, and Progress in Chicago Nearly sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a stark warning: “We must face the hard fact ...

TCR Investigative Reporting Practicum alum Sara Cooper covers “A Day of Remembrance,” a community healing event hosted by ...

It was just about a year ago that a city whistleblower came to journalist Jamie Kalven and attorney Craig Futterman out of concern that Laquan McDonald’s shooting a few weeks earlier “wasn’t being ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference announcing the findings of the Justice Department’s yearlong civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department on Jan. 13, 2017, flanked by ...