Have you ever driven through a city and noticed how quickly the surroundings can shift? From well-maintained streets with ...

The disaster disproportionately killed Black residents in neighborhoods that still face the worst health and resource crises.

July is nearly coming to a close, but we still have a great weekend ahead of us Chicago! It's supposed to be a rainy weekend, ...

Activism / As the tech industry moves increasingly into alignment with the far right, the issue of worker power has never been more important. The Chicago campaign offers some key lessons. Will ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- According to the American Booksellers Association, there are an estimated 2,500 independent bookstores across the United States. The number has grown in recent years.

A new report urges Chicago police to make community policing a core strategy, as civic leaders push for reform under the city’s six-year-old consent decree.

CHICAGO — When a converted Kenwood hotel opened its doors to migrants in the summer of 2023, officials who announced the news received vociferous pushback from residents. They had numerous ...

Chicago teens are learning how to make communities healthier through a new summer public health program at UIC.

Chicago’s historic mantra, “make no little plans,” guided the rebuilding of our city after the Great Fire. When Chicago faced rapid industrialization, explosive population growth ...

Elk Grove Village and Ascension Alexian Brothers Medical Center have been joined at the hip since the hospital opened in 1966, part of the Northwest suburban hospital boom that mirrored the explosive ...