In 2009, Jennifer Olson was on parole, out of prison and under community supervision for a felony conviction, when she stopped at a friend’s house on the way to the mall. When Olson arrived, the frien...

The former school board vice president says he doesn’t want to try to keep up with the flood of money from special interest groups and their messaging “that’s completely unrelated to student success.”

Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.

ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…

With the November election approaching, the Chicago Board of Elections and Cook County Clerk’s Office are looking for people to serve as poll workers on Election Day. Election judges must be a registe...

Chicago births 1968–2023 — totals and by race/ethnicity and total fertility rates

Join us for an interactive workshop focused on zines as a form of creative self-expression and a tool for community organizing and mobilization

The City Reporter is seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Audience Producer to execute on our ambitious strategy to introduce our reporting to new people and platforms and deepen our engagement wit...

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating disclosure.

Want to know how much white northwest siders hate Mayor Johnson—just read one alderwoman’s campaign flyer. Ben riffs. Denali returns, talking trauma. How she surviv…

The Child Tax Credit actually moved fewer children out of poverty in 2025 than it did in 2024 prior to Congress passing the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA).

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.