Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

Late last month, Belt Publishing released a new edition of The Battle of Lincoln Park with archival maps and photographs.

In a letter to the American Booksellers Association, eight left-wing, mission-driven bookstores argue that the broad definition of domestic terrorism contained in a 2025 national security presidential...

By Daniel Block & Andrea Craft April 6, 2027 This is a pre-order. Copies will ship in April 2027. Creative, colorful, original new maps of Chicago from local cartographers. For Chicagoans new and ...

The Himalaya, India, January 2008 At minus sixteen degrees Celsius, it was warm for a winter’s day in the Himalaya. I was in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, a huge gorge that cuts deep into t…

Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.

Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself

From Playstation Games to ebooks and family photos, corporations are replacing ownership with temporary access. But we don’t have to accept that.

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.

How J.B. and Penny Pritzker helped transform Chicago into a global hub for quantum computing—and the massive data center that comes with it.

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.