Chicago

“How to Kill a City” exposes how gentrification monetizes the loss and destruction of Black communities.

The president said he'd “send in the fed” to fix Chicago. On civil rights, he's doing the opposite.

Will requiring high school students to make post-graduation plans help or hurt their futures?

“A People's History of Chicago” brings this great American city to life with all of its scars and bruises, its sparkling beauty and contradictions intact.

The ordinance provides a meaningful model for creating reparations at the local level.

A movement in Chicago is growing to divest the city's pension funds and stocks and bonds.

Detroit paid Homrich Wrecking millions to shut off water supply to poor Black residents who couldn't pay their bills.

As the minimum wage rises, some cities have created departments to enforce the new labor laws. Chicago has not.

Democracy doesn't just have to be something students learn in textbooks. It can also be taught through participatory budgeting.

Fear of Trump has inured many of us to the injury Obama inflicted upon individuals and communities across the world.