The state’s legislators are too far from Chicago for the city’s inhabitants to really care, giving city leaders more power and Downstate politicians more room to hide.
A decade ago, his mother took him out of school for a three-day spree. Afterward, she killed herself. And the boy disappeared.
A lawsuit filed by a middle school instructor brings the Fox News–stoked debate over antiracist education to the North Shore.
Chicago politics used to exclude anybody nobody sent. As outsiders change the city’s makeup, they’re looking for leaders who aren’t too much like insiders.
The former nurse who flipped Illinois’s 14th District rode into Congress with a historic freshman class. She may have a better shot than any of them at making real change happen.
A day of reckoning is here: After the 2020 census, the city can no longer maintain all its Black legislative districts.
News that Alderman Ed Burke was caught on a federal wiretap making an anti-Semitic remark got us thinking: Where does it rank among the most cringe-inducing things local politicians have said under surveillance?
Calls to abolish the police have been renewed with the shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. But beneath that simple slogan is a lot of nuance.
As these testimonies reveal, those who have had the most severe cases face profound and often lasting effects that experts are still struggling to understand.
The state GOP has lost its mojo, and it’s going to take a major recalibration to rebuild.
