This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in ...

Budgets Are Value Statements “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Mayor Brandon Johnson often quotes ...

A new University of Illinois Chicago study finds that Chicago schools remain sharply divided, with policy decisions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Chicago becomes official with its first city charter. The Chicago Teachers Federation (CTF) is formed to advocate on behalf of teachers. It would become the Chicago Teachers Union 40 years later.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Urban Prairie Waldorf School will open on the Near West Side in the former Moses Montefiore ...

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 ...