R. Kelly’s Latest Trial
The singer is already serving 30 years, but now he faces another federal prosecution, scheduled to start in August in Chicago.
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Being the Son of Mother Country Radicals
A new podcast from Zayd Ayers Dohrn looks at the legacy of the Weather Underground and its ties to today’s social and political unrest.
The Lean Mile
COVID, crime, and online shopping are emptying Michigan Avenue’s swankiest stretch. Will it ever be magnificent again?
Once a Proxy for the Slavery Debate, Now Illinois Takes on Abortion
Our position in the middle of the country — surrounded by states with abortion bans — quite literally centers us in the rights controversy.
The Big Truth
University of Chicago professor Robert Pape has spent the past year and a half examining the January 6 insurrectionists — and sounding the alarm about the future of democracy. Is America listening?
Illinois Officials React to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Lightfoot, Pritzker, and other Democrats in the state vow to fight, while Republicans celebrate.
2022 Illinois Primaries
It’s midterm season once again, just later than usual, and state politics are getting all shook up. To help make sense of it: our lowdown on three key votes to watch June 28.
Op-Ed: Chicago’s Bitter Pill of Violence
A former mayoral candidate says that rather than blaming young people and looking for silver bullet solutions, the city needs to take a longer view of the policies that have ramifications for years and decades to come.
(Under)counting on Illinois
The state was undercounted in the 2020 Census by 65,000 to 440,000 people — but Edward McClelland’s experience as an enumerator suggests the number could be even higher.