After hundreds of complaints, citations, and a class-action settlement, city inspectors’ notes show instances where MAT ...

After implementing a contribute-what-you-can model last year, new and veteran artist make up a growing and diverse student ...

Ante el aumento vertiginoso de los precios de la vivienda en un barrio en proceso de gentrificación, vivir en la casa ...

Artists on the South and West sides rely on free or subsidized community housing and the support of mission-driven arts ...

ICE agents arrested a community organizer and mother, Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda along with at least nine others in Chicago ...

The City Council’s Latino Caucus was “deeply disappointed” by Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling after a June 11 meeting about the police department’s response to ...

Harper High School opened its doors in 1911 at the intersection of 65th Street and South Wood Street. The school is named after William Rainey Harper, a well-known education reformer and activist of ...

The Weekly spoke with people experiencing housing insecurity, including Black residents and Black and Latinx asylum seekers who face similar barriers to permanent housing in Chicago and systemic ...

The 1919 Race Riots, which were part of the racial violence seen across the country during a period known as the Red Summer, were provoked by an attempt to enforce segregation in the waters of Lake ...

The events of the past few days have only further cemented that Bridgeport’s residents of color are still confronted with the neighborhood’s past. But it’s less clear what the neighborhood can do to ...

In 2011, when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed a budget that closed half of the public mental health clinics in Chicago, City Council passed it unanimously. Less than a decade later, a progressive ...