Community mental health services are widely known in Chicago, but access becomes far less clear outside city ...

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

In July, CPS claimed the mass layoff of special education staff was an equity-driven reset, and not a means to address the ...

In July, CPS claimed the mass layoff of special education staff was an equity-driven reset, and not a means to address the $734M education budget shortfall. CPS officials told The Chicago Reporter the ...

In July, CPS claimed the mass layoff of special education staff was an equity-driven reset, and not a means to address the $734M education budget shortfall. CPS officials told The Chicago Reporter the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In Kansas City, the former Graceland Elementary School was transformed into the Mary L. Kelly ...

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 ...

Key Elementary School, located in the predominantly black Austin neighborhood, has stood empty since 2013 when it became one of 50 under-enrolled Chicago public schools shuttered to save money. Credit ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Joyce Edwards is one of the last few holdouts in a section of Englewood taken over by a rail yard ...

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 ...